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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Gustave Bourgain This was sent to me a few years ago by a commenter, but damned if I can't find the email. So...dear anonymous commenter...thank you!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 09:30 AM (c115l)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2025 09:30 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 09:30 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 09:30 AM (c115l)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 09:31 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 09:32 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: The local OSHA inspector at December 26, 2025 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 26, 2025 09:32 AM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 09:32 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Doof at December 26, 2025 09:33 AM (QMAsf)
I wonder how much powder it takes to fire and how much the cannonball weighs?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 09:33 AM (c115l)
Posted by: huerfano at December 26, 2025 09:33 AM (98kQX)
Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)
I wonder how much powder it takes to fire and how much the cannonball weighs?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025
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I wonder how much of the gun crew's hearing is left after a few battles or even drills.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 09:35 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
I like how he made the wood deck planks shiny. That's what makes it almost look like a photo.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 09:35 AM (c115l)
Way bigger yet than a 64pdr
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 09:35 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)
French: Pièce de 27 dans le réduit d'un cuirassé type Colbert vers 1885 Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Français : Canon de 27 cm modèle 1870 dans le réduit d'un cuirassé de type Colbert
English: Canon de 27 cm modèle 1870 in the armoured section of a Colbert class ironclad
Date 1887 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 65 cm (25.5 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 100 cm (39.3 in) Edit this at Wikidata
Collection
Collections of Musée national de la Marine de Paris
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)
I watch a lot of videos of photo realism painter Michael James Smith because it’s fascinating seeing the process and skill.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 26, 2025 09:35 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: George Costanza at December 26, 2025 09:36 AM (2Ez/1)
Has a photograph ever been featured on the Art Thread?
Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Otter at December 26, 2025 09:37 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: dantesed at December 26, 2025 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 09:35 AM"
See comment #7.
Posted by: Say what? at December 26, 2025 09:38 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 09:38 AM (gbOdA)
I might not hang it, but this is a cool painting.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 09:39 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: White Flag at December 26, 2025 09:39 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 09:33 AM (c115l)
It's a rifled barrel...so probably HE rounds as well as solid.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2025 09:39 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 09:35 AM"
See comment #7.
Posted by: Say what? at December 26, 2025 09:38 AM (2Ez/1)
________
Deafness was common in 'tween-decks gunners. Very common.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 26, 2025 09:39 AM (s0JqF)
Posted by: USS Iowa Gun Turret #2 at December 26, 2025 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)
I hope this helps to narrow down the list of suspects for you.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 26, 2025 09:41 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2025 09:41 AM (npFr7)
Way bigger yet than a 64pdr
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 09:35 AM
* smiles *
Posted by: Paolo at December 26, 2025 09:42 AM (0sNs1)
I hope this helps to narrow down the list of suspects for you.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 26, 2025 09:41 AM (6ydKt)
I contribute nothing most days, so I'm quite sure it wasn't me.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Fuck! Fag! Fritz! at December 26, 2025 09:42 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 26, 2025 09:43 AM (XSP3T)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 26, 2025 09:39 AM (s0JqF)
I had a cousin who spent some time with the Big Red One in Germany in the '50s, mostly in the field artillery. He was quite hard of hearing after that!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2025 09:43 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 26, 2025 09:43 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 26, 2025 09:43 AM (XSP3T)
*hugs*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 26, 2025 09:44 AM (WPL6O)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)
9.8 m/s squared
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 09:44 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Simple Tastes at December 26, 2025 09:45 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 26, 2025 09:43 AM (XSP3T)
Hi Teresa. Merry Christmas!!!
Posted by: ... at December 26, 2025 09:45 AM (O42gO)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 09:33 AM
You know charge weights are not supposed to be mentioned. I once translated the powder into grains for a 16" gun on the Missouri on the GT, and was roundly excoriated. Learn from my sad example.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 26, 2025 09:45 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025 09:46 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Trick question. The mission comes first. at December 26, 2025 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 09:46 AM (gbOdA)
It's a banger not a hanger. No airplanes
Posted by: Oh noes!! at December 26, 2025 09:46 AM (HcoTw)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
A Marine 0811 shows up to the VA:
*Diagnosis - complete hearing loss. Not service related.*
Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2025 09:46 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Otter at December 26, 2025 09:47 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: dantesed at December 26, 2025 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Aye! Aye! at December 26, 2025 09:47 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 09:47 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 09:35 AM"
See comment #7.
Posted by: Say what?
*cups ear* Huh?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 09:47 AM (c115l)
Posted by: JTB at December 26, 2025 09:48 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: USS Iowa Gun Turret #2 "
It's got a built-in toe squisher.
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025 09:49 AM (vFG9F)
"When I take my hearing aids out, I can't hear a thing, but I'll say after a day or two not wearing them, I believe I can hear just as good as when I have them in."
No. No you f*cking don't.
Every time your daughter says something to you, even with them IN, the first word out of your mouth is "HUH?!?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 26, 2025 09:49 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2025 09:50 AM (NwnyJ)
(I know, I know, check the cabinet where mom keeps the cereal...)
Posted by: PabloD at December 26, 2025 09:51 AM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 26, 2025 09:51 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: dantesed at December 26, 2025 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)
Based on the title , I’d guess French.
Also that’s a 10.6 inch shell, unusual for either American or British artillery.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2025 09:51 AM (xTuYU)
Posted by: dantesed
French.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Which is saying something as it's not easy to throw down a 27cm cannon at first contact.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2025 09:52 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: dantesed at December 26, 2025 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)
It’s French.
Difficult to believe, I know, but the sailor looks like he’s wearing a beret.
If we could see his shirt, it’s probably covered in wide blue horizontal stripes.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 26, 2025 09:52 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Joan Lunden at December 26, 2025 09:52 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: For those of you not named Paolo at December 26, 2025 09:52 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 26, 2025 09:53 AM (iJfKG)
This art is very clean, bright, finely detailed. Why can't we get this on classic nudes?😁
A watched coffee pot never finishes cooking.
G'morn, y'all. Got your 2nd Day of Christmas celebrations planned?
Posted by: mindful webworker - leftovers and wrapping burning? at December 26, 2025 09:54 AM (uPdbI)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2025 09:51 AM (xTuYU)
Wouldn't do for the (insert number of choice here)th Republic of France to use Imperial Measure, would it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2025 09:54 AM (npFr7)
Like hubby.
I don't understand. When I don't have my glasses or contacts on I don't deny that I am as blind as a bat.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 26, 2025 09:55 AM (eZ5tL)
Posted by: Cybernetic at December 26, 2025 09:55 AM (aL31n)
Merry Christmas, Horde!
Posted by: GWB at December 26, 2025 09:56 AM (Nmsxc)
Haiphong?
Rainbow Warrior?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 09:56 AM (A0sqA)
Like hubby.
I don't understand. When I don't have my glasses or contacts on I don't deny that I am as blind as a bat.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 26, 2025 09:55 AM (eZ5tL)
Huh? What?
Type louder!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 26, 2025 09:56 AM (iJfKG)
The partridge in the pear tree made a mess and the cat went chasing it all over the house. I told my true love to hold off on the two turtle doves.
Actually, I hoping to go see our retired organist and bring her communion.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 09:58 AM (ix8EF)
*Notes cat snoozing contentedly on feet.*
*Rejects earlier notion.*
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 09:58 AM (ZOv7s)
Haiphong?
Rainbow Warrior?
Posted by: San Franpsycho
At least the Frogs use water cannon on protesters. We here in America can't because Bull Connor once wet some "marchers" in Sel-ma.
Posted by: Pettus Bridgegate at December 26, 2025 09:59 AM (oftw2)
The 16 in. guns on the Iowa class battleships were able to hit targets approx 20 miles away. That’s some good shootin’.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 26, 2025 09:59 AM (2BdZb)
My husband is the same way. Refuses to get hearing aids.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 09:59 AM (ix8EF)
Beats me.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 26, 2025 10:00 AM (nWPIJ)
That's a pretty epic hash you've got there.
AoS QA
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)
Call us.
Posted by: 1-800-Raytheon at December 26, 2025 10:00 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 26, 2025 10:00 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Joan Lunden at December 26, 2025 09:52 AM (oftw2)
He's always been an incredibly self-centered piece of shit. This year, he's proven it tenfold.
OH the stories I could tell........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Simple Tastes at December 26, 2025 09:45 AM (oftw2)
Well, most of the ladies in the pics of nekid ladies posted here never have happy little bushes. It was a Victo...
Excuse me a moment.
/unintelligible/
Oh, ummm... Never mind.
Posted by: GWB at December 26, 2025 10:03 AM (Nmsxc)
Like hubby.
I don't understand. When I don't have my glasses or contacts on I don't deny that I am as blind as a bat.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 26, 2025 09:55 AM (eZ5tL)
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That's because it is often situational. When I'm at work, or conducting commerce, I can hear just fine because people are speaking over background noise and take care with their communication because it's important things are understood so the work gets completed.
At home, people mumble, turn away, talk while walking away, talk while leaving the room and so I lose a lot of it.
When friends come over or at a party (such as Christmas yesterday), I followed conversation easily. But today everyone is now mumbling, talking into the phone, etc.
The loss is also uneven. Higher pitches are what I am losing. I can hear men just fine, but women kind of fade out. I'm trying to determine if this is a feature or a bug.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 10:03 AM (ZOv7s)
Ahem. I'm right here at your fingertips.
Posted by: The internet at December 26, 2025 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Weasel at December 26, 2025 10:03 AM (PVV5z)
Posted by: Eromero at December 26, 2025 10:04 AM (Slgjz)
I don't understand. When I don't have my glasses or contacts on I don't deny that I am as blind as a bat.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 26, 2025 09:55 AM (eZ5tL)
We bought him a new TV for Christmas last year. He nearly destroyed the built in speakers because he doesn't wear his aids when he's alone. So, I bought him some external speakers.
He still turns it up to 99.
But he can hear just fine without hearing aids in a day or two not wearing them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 10:04 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2025 10:05 AM (npFr7)
Beats me.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 26, 2025 10:00 AM (nWPIJ)
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This isn't an early one. This was second generation, so all-metal construction, and there was variation between turret (Monitor-style, not Iowa-style), barbette, and central battery. Broadsides were less efficient in terms of traverse, but more seaworthy.
See also: HMS Captain.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 10:05 AM (ZOv7s)
———
Right, it isn’t a racial or ethnic thing. Rioters need to be stopped regardless of skin tone. What is apparent is municipalities and state governments had a kind of smart frugality. Fire equipment, the fire department and firemen are already being paid. Garbage trucks and snowplows would be deployed around buildings, that kind of thing. Use what you have.
Today we have eleventy gazillion different agencies, and none of them can be used for anything, “not my department”, and the ones tasked for any given situation are often populated with incompetent grifters and water walkers.
One good “push” and a lot of places will go down hard, and ain’t gettin’ back up again.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 26, 2025 10:05 AM (2BdZb)
Well, most of the ladies in the pics of nekid ladies posted here never have happy little bushes.
Posted by: GWB at December 26, 2025 10:03 AM (Nmsxc)
We've got bush!!!
Posted by: Booger at December 26, 2025 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Old Yeller at December 26, 2025 10:06 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 26, 2025 09:55 AM (eZ5tL)
My father for the last several years of his life refused to believe he was going deaf.
So much so that he chose to share the TV with everybody in the neighborhood by turning it up to 50 and then acted all confused when asked to turn the volume down so people could have a conversation with him without screaming at the top of their lungs.
His favorite phrases at that point were; “Huh?”, “What?”, and finally, “Say that again, I can’t understand you.” followed up by “Stop raising your voice at me.”
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 26, 2025 10:06 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 10:03 AM (ZOv7s)
I have some higher pitch hearing loss... roughly in the frequency a turbine whine would make. I'd probably have less if I'd worn hearing protection more regularly but what sailor worth his salt does that?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 26, 2025 10:06 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: mindful webworker - leftovers and wrapping burning? at December 26, 2025 09:54 AM (uPdbI)
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Gotta go buy a cage for the two turtle doves.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 26, 2025 10:06 AM (ESVrU)
I recently saw a photo of a cannon being installed in a Civil War era warship. I don't recall the exact ship, or whether it was Union or Confederate, but it was sizeable and fixed, not movable.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2025 10:06 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 26, 2025 10:06 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: The internet at December 26, 2025 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)
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Yeah, full of lies, like Wikipedia. I'm sure I'll learn that there were insufficient People of Color and Trans Visibility in the French Marine circa 1870 and nothing about armor thickness or weight of shot.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Apr 11, 1944
Bomb Disposal brought in an unusual
specimen today, a 280mm dud. It has 12
longitudinal rotating strips instead of the
usual band. Length: about 3 ½ ft. Wt.: over
500 lbs. Range is unknown but it is bound
to be a very long range gun.
Posted by: muldoon at December 26, 2025 10:08 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025
***
And the elevation wheel (?) looks polished, too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 10:08 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: muldoon at December 26, 2025 10:08 AM (/iMjX)
His favorite phrases at that point were; “Huh?”, “What?”, and finally, “Say that again, I can’t understand you.” followed up by “Stop raising your voice at me.”
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 26, 2025 10:06 AM (6ydKt)
First word out of his mouth when his daughter speaks to him is "HUH??!!!" So she yells at him so he can hear it. He follows with "Oh.....and you don't need to be so pissy!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 10:09 AM (Zz0t1)
Yeah, I find myself walking back in a door, asking ‘what was that again?’.
Posted by: Eromero at December 26, 2025 10:09 AM (Slgjz)
The Morning Report — 12/26/25
President Trump announced Thursday that the US military hit ISIS terrorists in Nigeria targeting Christians with “numerous” deadly airstrikes. “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was,” the president continued. “Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.” US Africa Command said the Christmas Day strike was carried out in Sokoto state and initial assessments indicate “multiple ISIS terrorists were killed in the ISIS camps.” The Department of War shared unclassified footage of a missile being launched from the deck of a military vessel after Trump announced the operation. The Pentagon coordinated with the Nigerian government ahead of the strikes. “The Department of War worked with the government of Nigeria to carry out these strikes,” a War Department official told The Post. “These strikes were approved by the government of Nigeria.” . . . The airstrikes come one day after a bomb ripped through a mosque in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing five people and injuring dozens, in a suspected suicide attack. The African nation has been plagued by violence carried out by multiple armed militant groups, including Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa Province.I have some mixed feelings about this. First of all, the government of Nigeria hasn't done a damn thing to protect its own citizens and has allowed the cancer of Islam, in this case the strain known as Boko Haram, to fester within its borders for years. That said, Islam is spilling a river of blood all across the Western World as we witnessed in abject horror just last week in Bondi Beach, while western leaders are burying their heads, prior to being lopped off by Khalid's rusty hacksaw, in the sand and worse, blaming the victims and celebrating the butchers as the real victims. While there is no such thing as "Radical" Islam because that is a redundancy. Islam itself is an evil, "radical" retrograde genocidal political movement that for 1500 years has sought the domination and/or destruction of the world. Whom they can neither convince nor dupe nor force into conversion they will annihilate. On the one hand it is a good thing that President Trump and therefore America is picking up the mantle of defender of civilization as no other nation nor leader is capable or willing to do the same, On the other hand my fear is American boots on the ground in Africa. It should be noted that Nigeria and much of the African continent is rich in natural resources including petroleum as well as the much coveted and discussed rare earth elements. So much so that the Red Chinese are desperate to set up shop and in essence put the dark continent into its sphere of influence, like everywhere else on planet earth, so denying yet another retrograde tyranny the means and bases with which to challenge America's vital foreign interests and security would be a positive in supporting the Nigerian government. On these pages and on the latest episode of the podcast linked here, and in the sidebar as well as on the usual popular outlets listed below, CBD and I discussed President Trump's recent announcement of his desire to construct a fleet of 25 modern battleships. This of course is sheer folly, but at least it sends a message that he and we mean business when it comes to defending our interests at home and abroad. But what are our interests? While it's certainly a good thing that the literal cutting edge of Islam is met and beaten back with blunt force. I fear that by not shedding this ridiculous and self-defeating notion of legitimizing the idiocy of the twin myths of both "radical" and "moderate" or mainstream Islam, we are ultimately doomed to fail. President Trump is usually very good at boxing his enemies into rhetorical corners and confronting them with their hipocrisies and shoving them down their throat. Here is the golden (pun intended) opportunity for Trump to call on these alleged Moderate Muslims to publicly renounce and reject any and alll Koranic/Isamic teachings calling for the death of infidels. When this is of course summarily rejected and or denied, those who have eyes to see will see it plain as day. Meanwhile, as per the podcast, I for one look forward to the day when the USS Covfefe sails up the Mississippi or down the St. Lawrence Seaway into the Great Lakes and trains its 18-inch guns on Dearborn and Minneapolis: The cutting edge of ISlam is right under our nose and creeping down towards our jugular vein.
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) said there was a possibility that the potential $9 billion in welfare fraud allegedly committed in Minnesota may have been sent to terrorists in Somalia. “Do you sense, Congressman Gill, that any of your Democrat colleagues in Congress, in the House, are so outraged that they’ll actually join in the investigation or maybe try to give a little bit of credence to this bill?” guest host Kellyanne Conway asked. “I mean, they they’ve got to feel outraged that billions of dollars meant to go and feed hungry people could have gone to Somalia — certainly went to fraud and waste and abuse and not to those truly in need. . “You know, I hope that Democrats recognize how unbelievably corrupt this is, how it undermines our entire social system, our entire economic system, and gets on board,” he continued. “But, you know, they’ve been pretty hesitant to do that so far. The Democrat playbook has been import as many unassimilable foreigners as they possibly can, get them on the dole, and ensure that these people vote Democrat for life. That’s what we’re up against here.”Hope over experience. Feh. A quick spin of your Replogle globe will show that Somalia is just a couple of not very long Tarzan vine swings from Nigeria. No doubt that Boko Haram, ISIS or whatever in Somalia, the Houthis just across the Red Sea and every other clit-clipper and head chopper are all interconnected. And far too many of them are right here already in the US of A. But I better erase all of this as I wouldn't want to be labeled Islamphobic. Let's not lose our heads. Literally! On all these cheery notes, have a great weekend! And lastly, a quick shout-out and a huge thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
- “Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.”
Trump launches ‘powerful and deadly’ Christmas Day strikes on ISIS targeting Christians in Nigeria: ‘Terrorist Scum’ (Now launch on Dearborn and Minneapolis - jjs)
- CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
- The erosion of the philosophical and institutional/constitutional structure of America has intensified during a period exceeding one hundred years beginning with Woodrow Wilson.
Our Nation Is Reversing Course
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS - Illegal identity theft isn’t victimless: millions of Americans may unknowingly share jobs, tax bills, and stress with illegal workers exploiting gaps in the E-Verify system.
How Illegal Immigration and Government Failure Fuel Identity Theft WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - Indonesia has a reputation for being a “moderate” Muslim nation, but the wind in the Islamic world as a whole is blowing in the opposite direction, as a group of Christians has just discovered. Notice that it has now been nearly a quarter-century since 9/11, and while we have seen heroic individual Muslims such as Ahmed al-Ahmed, who tackled one of the Bondi Beach jihadis, we have never seen any large-scale Muslim action against terrorism. We have never seen Muslims form a human wall to block an Islamic jihad attack, or to stop a woman from being abused in accord with the direction to “beat” disobedient women in the Qur’an (4:34). But forming a human wall to prevent Christians from celebrating Christmas? No problem.
Muslims in Indonesia Show Christians What They Think of Them
- Urges Europeans to accept Muslim mass migration. Fails to mention churches being attacked by Muslims in Nigeria.
Pope Leo: Jesus Identified with Gaza Muslims and Illegal Aliens
- Authorities ignore Muslim grooming gangs, targets 'misogyny’ among boys.
UK Muslim Minister Declares ‘War on Boys’
- “You know, I hope that Democrats recognize how unbelievably corrupt this is, how it undermines our entire social system, our entire economic system, and gets on board,” he continued. “But, you know, they’ve been pretty hesitant to do that so far. The Democrat playbook has been import as many unassimilable foreigners as they possibly can, get them on the dole, and ensure that these people vote Democrat for life. That’s what we’re up against here.”
GOP Rep. Gill: MN Welfare Fraud Money ‘Could Have Been Funneled to Al-Shabaab Terrorists in Somalia’
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY - “They have that Jew money” and “They control the banks, y’know.”
School Principal Accidentally Leaves Antisemitic Rant on Parent’s Voicemail DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has cancelled MaineCare payments to Gateway Community Services after the audits found that the charity over billed the state for $1,068,598 from March 2021 through December 2022. The cash was supposedly to cover the costs of “interpreting services” to Somali migrants, the Bangor Daily News reported.
Maine Suspends Payments to Somali Charity after $1M in Fraud Uncovered by Audits THE ECONOMY, STUPID - We haven’t seen prices this low since the last time Trump was president.
A little cheap gas for Christmas CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - When Islam provides a convenient scapegoat for all of life’s setbacks.
Utah Man Claims to Be a Woman and Murders His Parents, and Then the Story Gets Weird DIVINE’s MADNESS — Ongoing Leftist Fueled Transgender Terrorism FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - Curiously missing from the article was the most notorious anti-Trump judge of them all: Judge James Boasberg. Weird, right?
NBC News Plays the Victim Card for Anti-Trump Judges RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
- EVs aren’t failing because consumers don’t want them, but because tariffs block affordable competition—leaving Americans stuck with costly choices the rest of the world has outgrown.
Let Americans Choose Their Cars—Not the Government EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - Students should aspire to be more than mere ‘prompt writers,’ but minds capable of thinking, reasoning, and perseverance.
Artificial Intelligence In The Classroom Destroys Actual Intelligence In Students
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY - Nice work if you can get it.
Maine’s Communist Senate Candidate is Already Living Under Communism POLITICS - For politicians, scandal and controversy can be bad. But becoming the object of ridicule can be even more devastating. So if Kamala Harris happens to read these words, we'd advise her NOT to watch CNN's 7 am Christmas Day hour. What she'd find under the tree will be something worse than a lump of coal. It will be a steaming pile of . . . ridicule. It's almost 2026, so why not a horse race segment on 2028 presidential contenders? After Dem Meghan Hays and Republican Melik Abdul named their favorites, Abdul observed: "Notably, who we're not talking about: Kamala Harris."Host John Berman put it to Hays: "Why aren't we talking about her, Meghan?" Abdul burst into laughter, amused to see Hays thusly put on the spot, and even Berman couldn't suppress a grin. Hays proceeded to engage in an extended bout of nervous laughter. She questioned whether Harris has a base and could raise money.
Kamala '28? A CNN Democrat Laughs Nervously!
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS - Speaking at a graduation ceremony for Israeli Air Force pilots, Netanyahu said he approved, together with the defense and finance ministers, a NIS 350 billion (about $110 billion) multi-year plan aimed at ensuring Israel can arm itself independently while maintaining its battlefield edge.
Israel Announces $110 Billion Plan to Build Independent Arms Industry — ‘Reduce Dependency on Allies’ FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - Peace through strength, defined by ‘hard-nosed realism’ over the ‘utopian idealism’ of a bygone era, is poised to yield both a popular and durable American defense policy.
Here’s What Trump Means By Calling For ‘Peace Through Strength’ - Chile is the world’s largest copper producer and second-largest lithium producer – a mineral heavyweight whose fate could decide that of the entire “green” energy industry. Kast entered December’s presidential election as a two-time veteran of the race for the nation’s top office, last losing to incumbent President Gabriel Boric in 2021. He defeated his rival, Communist Party candidate Jeannette Jara, in an unprecedented landslide this time, taking every Chilean state. He ran on a campaign focused on strengthening Chile’s borders, limiting immigration, expanding “popular capitalism,” and fighting crime.
Chile’s Conservative President-Elect Complicates China’s Mineral Ambitions in South America
- Those supporting and those opposed to Trump’s kinetic actions against drug boats from Venezuela both have legitimate concerns about the state of play.
The Arc Of Force: Cartels, Sovereignty, And The Question Of End States
- Argentina’s President Javier Milei is on track to make economic history in a country shedding the trauma of socialism after decades of stagnation.
Two Years of Javier Milei
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - If sunlight contains photons in "dark states" that don't interact with matter, we have been missing a massive reservoir of energy
Beyond Duality: How ‘Dark States’ Are Redefining The Nature Of Light FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY - A bill which would allow men to opt into women’s prisons, jails and other incarceration facilities throughout New York State has been amended and resubmitted to a New York State Senate Committee for consideration
New York Won’t Give Up Its Efforts to House Men in Women’s Prisons THOUGHTS ON CHRISTMAS 2025 - ‘Then His mother took Him to her heart, and with her cheek and breast warmed Him with great joy, and a mother’s tender compassion.’
Meet The Saint Who Shaped The Modern Nativity Scene - In place of Christmas Eve — the day celebrating Mary and Joseph’s preparation to bring the King of Kings into the world — North Korean Christians are obligated to celebrate the birthday of Kim Il-sung’s wife. . .
What Christmas Looks Like In The World’s Most Dangerous Countries For Christians
- Did you just realize that Ms. Gennero's name is "Holly?"
Of course Die Hard is a Christmas movie
- Think about what he says and does.
Scrooge Was A Liberal CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - The late-night host used Channel 4’s Alternative Christmas Message to deliver one of his most pointed political monologues yet — on a UK network, not American television.
Jimmy Kimmel renews attacks on Trump in UK Christmas address
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 06:18 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 26, 2025 06:22 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 26, 2025 06:26 AM (oJ9lv)
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025 06:27 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 06:29 AM (Ia/+0)
I don't know about that. It's more of a detour on the road to serfdom.
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025 06:31 AM (vFG9F)
“Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.”
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I commented yesterday and again today, we do not deserve this man.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 06:34 AM (A6iMD)
Moderate Muslims are not opposed to beheading unbelievers they just don't want to do it themselves.
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025 06:36 AM (vFG9F)
I doubt that two will be enough. Ref. Luke 22:38
Posted by: Fenderbender at December 26, 2025 06:36 AM (1FEc1)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 26, 2025 06:36 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 06:18 AM (gbOdA)
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Mmm...not that kind of boxing, I should think.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 26, 2025 06:37 AM (qbLEp)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 26, 2025 06:38 AM (xG4kz)
Pass.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 26, 2025 06:38 AM (xG4kz)
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Forty-two!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 26, 2025 06:39 AM (qbLEp)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2025 06:40 AM (x0n13)
Who wishes to fight me?
Posted by: r hennigantx
Rock em sock em. I'll take the red rocker, you can have the blue bomber.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 26, 2025 06:42 AM (55cF/)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 26, 2025 06:43 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 06:45 AM (A6iMD)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 26, 2025 06:47 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 26, 2025 06:48 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 26, 2025 06:56 AM (xG4kz)
Expect weepies in the New York Times and the Guardian about little 8-year-old ISIS kids killed by the big, bad United States.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2025 06:56 AM (tgvbd)
A quiet but nice Christmas was celebrated at stately VIA Manor.
Cats all were over-fed, and we as well.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2025 06:57 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 26, 2025 06:57 AM (u82oZ)
“They have that Jew money” and “They control the banks, y’know.”
School Principal Accidentally Leaves Antisemitic Rant on Parent’s Voicemail
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I looked up Philip Leddy, saw an image of him.
"Put Neidermeyer on it. He's a sneaky little shit just like you."
-Dean Vernon Worrmer
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 26, 2025 06:58 AM (azNOR)
Posted by: Eromero at December 26, 2025 06:59 AM (Slgjz)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 26, 2025 07:02 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 07:03 AM (lkBjo)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2025 07:04 AM (tgvbd)
"While a rapidly growing economy would help, the realistic solution to fixing the country’s financial woes, Romney said, is to tax the rich.
"I believe in free enterprise, and I believe all Americans should be able to strive for financial success," Romney wrote. "But we have reached a point where any mix of solutions to our nation’s economic problems is going to involve the wealthiest Americans contributing more."
Well, there is nothing stopping you from writing a check, Mitt. Of course it may all end up in some shithole like Somalia.
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025 07:04 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 26, 2025 07:05 AM (cxFcK)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 26, 2025 07:05 AM (Cjt/F)
Romney says rich people like him should pay more taxes.
We don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2025 07:05 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 26, 2025 07:06 AM (bQ4nt)
The average income tax rate in 2022 was 14.5 percent. The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid a 23.1 percent average rate, six times higher than the 3.7 percent average rate paid by the bottom half of taxpayers.
The top 1 percent’s income share fell from 26.3 percent in 2021 to 22.4 percent in 2022, and its share of federal income taxes paid fell from 45.8 percent to 40.4 percent.
The top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97 percent of all federal individual income taxes, while the bottom 50 percent paid the remaining 3 percent.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 07:06 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 26, 2025 07:09 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: my temple garment wants higher marginal tax rates at December 26, 2025 07:12 AM (3sN3b)
I thank NotSoThoreau for that.
This was the first Christmas without my late wife. Christmas was her favorite timer of year, and she made our house a Wonderland with her incredible decorating skills, panoply of Christmas treasures, and bespoke gifts.
NotSoThoreau invited me over for dinner and some time at the range. She cooked a toothsome meal, with Kerry Gold butter on her homemade bread, and sparkling apple cider to go with the apple pie. She is a good cook.
NotSoThoreau lives only 10 minutes from a local range. I'll report on that for the Gun thread. But this was my first time trying to hit targets in 6 years. Stormtroopers want me to join them, as a sharpshooter.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 26, 2025 07:13 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 26, 2025 07:14 AM (wVcYX)
No, I think it's more likely that his brain thinks stupid thoughts.
And then wants to share them with us.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2025 07:15 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 26, 2025 07:05 AM (cxFcK)
"Reliable sources," that is, serial liars of legacy media, claim this has been debunked. So who knows?
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 26, 2025 07:16 AM (VnsnO)
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025 07:04 AM (vFG9F)
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Like all leftists he dons the cape of virtue but wants someone else to make the sacrifice.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 07:16 AM (9ipOP)
I clicked on the NY Post website and the first image is Jimmy Kimmel spouting his nonsense in London. Hope he meets some nice Jihadists while there
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2025 07:16 AM (2vrAX)
Posted by: BlutarskI
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I believe that was debunked.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 26, 2025 07:16 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Just Wondering at December 26, 2025 07:19 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 26, 2025 07:20 AM (VnsnO)
But it's not some iron clad fundamental theorem of geopolitics that American Military Presence = Bad. It's only the way military power has been projected in recent history that makes the idea of that presence now rankle in the nostrils of the average American.
If there's a job to do that needs to be done, go do it. The problem isn't the "Go" part on its own, it's decades of "Go" followed by everything under the sun besides the "Do It" part.
Rubble doesn't make trouble.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 26, 2025 07:20 AM (06Hmj)
Uh, no. They're failing because people don't want them. But then, a Bushite would say that, wouldn't he?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 26, 2025 07:20 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2025 07:20 AM (7xrfc)
Yarg ye lubber, from the Welland to the Soo is up, not down -- and even the modest Ticonderoga cruiser class was too deep to transit the Welland Canal. Your fantasies are bloodthirsty enough, but you're basically folding newspapers into boats here.
Grandpa used to say, "Better hold your muzzle up, your candy's falling out." Smart Military Comedy Routine, any more. Paddy on the heddy, there's a good lad, off to bed with you now.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 26, 2025 07:22 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Git Rumney at December 26, 2025 07:23 AM (1OGkI)
Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.
Normally the drive to see NotSoThoreau is three or so hours. Unseasonably warm weather left the state covered in thick fog. This transmogrified even familiar roads.
Driving the speed limit would be faster than your sight line/stopping distance. It was an act of faith to continue. The good news is no deer, cows, or humans were killed in this saga.
The drive took an extra hour and a half both ways. Good thing the roads were so empty. You are driving on a short length of viable road, surrounded by white. Once the fog lifted a bit, to show large pillars reaching into the cloud base. They were wind turbines, without visible blades.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 26, 2025 07:24 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2025 07:25 AM (7xrfc)
Cheaper than my 25 megabit copper line by 30 bucks, too.
Now I just hope that Spectrum is at least not more unreliable or unreachable than CenturyLink was.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 26, 2025 07:26 AM (ph+d0)
We don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2025 07:05 AM (tgvbd)
It's sitting around fretting about how your wife ought to try to make more money at her second or third job, and maybe those layabout kindergarten aged kids of yours ought to go make some scratch too, because you maxed out every credit card you have on fifteen Nigerian Prince's "modalities" and still await that glorious day that you get your cut of the riches and can leave those lazy jerks.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 26, 2025 07:26 AM (06Hmj)
Feel free to volunteer in Ukraine or Nigeria or wherever.
It's beyond naive to think new deployments won't be as comically mismanaged as past ones.
Posted by: have fun storming the castle at December 26, 2025 07:26 AM (JZXGx)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 26, 2025 07:28 AM (ph+d0)
Here's the Premier of New South Wales:
"We don't have the same freedom of speech laws that they have in the U.S., and the reason for that is that we want to hold together a multicultural community."
You can have free speech or you can have multiculturalism. You can't have both.
I think that is what most Democrats here in the US think.
(eg You cannot complain about the fraud in Minneapolis).
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 26, 2025 07:30 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 07:30 AM (A0sqA)
I doubt that he was including himself in that category.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2025 07:31 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2025 07:31 AM (2vrAX)
Posted by: NR Pax "
He said so explicitly. I have not heard that he is doing it himself voluntarily though.
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025 07:35 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: have fun storming the castle at December 26, 2025 07:26 AM (JZXGx)
Ah, the old Chickenhawk canard.
Nobody is allowed so much as a bit of analysis for its own sake, until they have their own throne of skulls to sit upon.
Hey, Rome worked out great when the legions were finally allowed to run it, right?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 26, 2025 07:35 AM (06Hmj)
Glad to hear that you traveled safely, and had a nice enjoyable time.
Christmas can be a difficult time with the loss of a spouse of family member, but it is only a temporary physical separation.
One year ago today, we traveled back to Pennsylvania to celebrate my father's life, and bury his remains.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2025 07:36 AM (iMotb)
I'm sure he's going to tot up every cent he brought in by hook or by crook and not take a single deduction.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 26, 2025 07:38 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2025 07:41 AM (2vrAX)
California is much more scenic. I lived on Skagges Island at the top of San Pablo bay for a time. Went to elementary and middle school in Sonoma.
The views of the subtle beauty of the Smoky Hills, out to a far horizon as duck fell, was also heart-lifting. I could go 30 minutes before I saw another car. Cows, round hay bales covering a field, as yet uncollected, were all proof that ranchers worked here, out of my sight.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 26, 2025 07:43 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: davidt at December 26, 2025 07:43 AM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2025 07:41 AM (2vrAX)
Well merry Christmases are Jaramillo after all.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 26, 2025 07:43 AM (8CIFn)
'I'm sure he's going to tot up every cent he brought in by hook or by crook and not take a single deduction.'
Of course. Taxes are for little people.
Posted by: Mitt Romney at December 26, 2025 07:44 AM (fd80v)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2025 07:45 AM (2vrAX)
NotSoThoreau has a quip about that. "As long as we tell their stories, they are not gone forever." Or words to that effect.
Glad your Christmas went so well.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 26, 2025 07:46 AM (u82oZ)
חַג הַמוֹלָד
It means Holiday of the Newborn
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 07:46 AM (A0sqA)
Need more coffee though
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 07:47 AM (Ia/+0)
NotSoThoreau has a quip about that. "As long as we tell their stories, they are not gone forever." Or words to that effect.
Glad your Christmas went so well.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 26, 2025 07:46 AM (u82oZ)
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Their memories are a blessing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 07:47 AM (A0sqA)
A country cannot have more than one dominant culture.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 26, 2025 07:47 AM (XV/Pl)
Pay all you want, no one says you cant
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 07:48 AM (Ia/+0)
Need more coffee though
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 07:47 AM (Ia/+0)
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I really like where you are going with this.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 07:49 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 07:49 AM (77rzZ)
It no longer focuses on the heart of Christianity, just money. Sad. The Scamdemic really exposed The Church for what it is these days.
Artur Pawlowski showed what every Catholic should have done. And didn't.
Posted by: Danimal28 at December 26, 2025 07:51 AM (mNOhh)
Posted by: davidt at December 26, 2025 07:43 AM (Q+gd/)
Oh I hope not. I'm counting on that check to cover my Christmas spending bills.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 26, 2025 07:52 AM (wVcYX)
Have a wonderful Boxing Day, everyone, and may the good times linger in your mind.
Safe travels, for all those in transit.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 26, 2025 07:52 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2025 07:52 AM (2vrAX)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 26, 2025 07:53 AM (gm9Sb)
Need more coffee though
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 07:47 AM (Ia/+0)
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I really like where you are going with this.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 07:49 AM (A0sqA)
The more coffee ensures the going.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 26, 2025 07:53 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Automobile Club of America at December 26, 2025 07:54 AM (oftw2)
My mom told me a family together played a song with mother singing , father, daughter and son playing different musical instruments. The young woman my mom saud has a Muslim boyfriend, good looking too.
I told her it won't work for them eventually.
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 07:54 AM (Ia/+0)
Failure. Sure, that's what it was.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 26, 2025 07:55 AM (ExV1e)
Remember JJ was such a fan noi over Afghanistan, and also Iraq. The overthrow of Saddam birthed ISIS. ISIS is now a much bigger problem than Saddam ever was
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 26, 2025 07:59 AM (q36KX)
A country cannot have more than one dominant culture.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 26, 2025 07:47 AM (XV/Pl)
There's been a lot of bludgeonspeak about the concept of culture, at least for as long as any of us have been alive.
Culture is taken to be only what music you listen to, what food you eat, how much you use your hands when you talk... and surely, none of that should be homogenized, right? Surely all that meaningless accidental stuff that makes up Culture is fine? The more the merrier? Different Strokes etc etc?
All to, intentionally or unintentionally, distract from the idea that none of that is really Culture. What demands are you allowed to make of a stranger? What obligations to you have to your family? Who is responsible for keeping you fed and sheltered? Those are the assumptions that actually make up a Culture, and ultimately a civilization.
And yet, ironically, for all the talk of Multiculturalism in the trivial sense, and how great precious diversity is in terms of that kind of superficial "culture", cultural Brutalism is making all our music sound the same and all our food taste like nothing.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 26, 2025 08:00 AM (06Hmj)
That was where I watched it back during the Sniffle Scare. It's based on a novel by one Christianna Brand.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 08:00 AM (wzUl9)
Man. If only I could buy a toy car which wouldn't suit my needs for less. One which would extend the time required for any trip significantly, cost more to fuel as electricity prices rise, have no trade-in value, and potentially burn down my house.
What this country really needs is high quality cars manufactured in China, or India, or Mexico (I guess).
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 26, 2025 08:00 AM (ExV1e)
'Mitt claims Ann's dressage horses as dependents. '
They're members of the family. In an act of bipartisanship, Biden gave me some social security numbers.
I don't expect any of you Oompa-Loompas to understand.
Posted by: Mitt Romney at December 26, 2025 08:01 AM (fd80v)
Some got almost $500k payout along with over $100k tax bills.
There is not person that believe this is a fair tax system.
They earned that $500k over 10 or 20 years.
Stupid stupid stupid tax system.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 08:02 AM (gbOdA)
Always a good plan. The small size of Israel makes it a heavy lift, though, since it's always in range of their enemies.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 26, 2025 08:02 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 26, 2025 08:02 AM (AIsYF)
Posted by: Automobile Club of America at December 26, 2025 07:54 AM (oftw2)
"Did you have to be that good?!"
I remember that commercial where he bemoans how well they taught his wife to drive.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2025 08:03 AM (x0n13)
Sadly, it's only a matter of time before voters crave 'fairness' and re-start their death march to hell.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 26, 2025 08:04 AM (ExV1e)
A country cannot have more than one dominant culture.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 26, 2025
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Yes. The Roman Republic, and the Empire for a long long time, was one culture, Roman. The empire was multi-racial and multi-ethnic -- there were Syrians, Gauls, Italians, Greeks, Berbers; multiple religions such as Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Mithraism. But the *culture* was a single thing, and all within it aspired to be Romans.
Later on this declined. So did Rome.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 08:04 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 26, 2025 08:00 AM (ExV1e)
Also assume Americans are stupid lazy worthless cocksuckers that cannot build a good cheap car.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 08:04 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 08:02 AM (gbOdA)
Some people take "all taxation is theft" as their motto.
Other people say "all income is theft".
Force my hand, and I know which statement I would side with.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 26, 2025 08:05 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2025 08:05 AM (czfTj)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 26, 2025 08:05 AM (VCgbV)
A country cannot have more than one dominant culture.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 26, 2025 07:47 AM (XV/Pl)
You can, but you cannot have freedoms.
See my quote from S Wales govt.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 08:06 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 08:04 AM (gbOdA)
Just make sure your environmental impact statement is all in order, comrade.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 26, 2025 08:06 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Pope Leo at December 26, 2025 08:07 AM (fd80v)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 26, 2025 08:08 AM (bvwOM)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus
My cable internet was costing me $146 at the end. Last 3 months, Brightspeed fiber $59. No hiccups-much better.
Posted by: Cheep Skate at December 26, 2025 08:09 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2025 08:09 AM (NpAcC)
We used to have a fairly sophisticated drone base in Niger that we were forced to abandon after some leftist hack made derogatory comments about the government there. Not that the Niger government isn't crap, but you don't necessarily say it to their face if you've got a base of operations there that, arguably, you need.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2025 08:10 AM (NwnyJ)
All Japanese movies should have Samurais
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 08:11 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: r hennigantx
Your Chevette is kind of an Opel clone.
Posted by: Auto Autist at December 26, 2025 08:12 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2025 08:12 AM (xTuYU)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 26, 2025 08:04 AM (ExV1e)
That seems to be the historic pendulum.
I can see us being so prosperous by 2028 that we reject Trump's heir apparent and turn back to phony feel-good "fairness."
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 26, 2025 08:12 AM (VnsnO)
All Japanese movies should have Samurais
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 08:11 AM (Ia/+0)
You know how expensive it would be to make a katana that big?
Posted by: Studio Toho at December 26, 2025 08:12 AM (06Hmj)
"Hey look, those somalis are democrating again! Hide your money and your children!"
Posted by: Urban Dictionary at December 26, 2025 08:13 AM (R/m4+)
All Japanese movies should have Samurais
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025
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Even murder mysteries?
That would make an interesting film. A samurai is found dead in a locked room. His sword must have been the murder weapon; it should be in the room because witnesses say it could not have been carried out; but it's not there. . . .
(Don't ask me to suggest a solution. I can come up with locked room/impossible crimes; I can never solve them.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 08:14 AM (wzUl9)
All Japanese movies should have Samurais
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 08:11 AM (Ia/+0)
and Samurai delicatessens.
Posted by: Ghost of John Belushi at December 26, 2025 08:15 AM (wVcYX)
Rich people don't pay taxes. High income people pay taxes. For people like Romney, who is estimated to be worth ~$250M, high income taxes are irrelevant and help to prevent newcomers from getting into his clubs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 26, 2025 08:15 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2025 08:15 AM (2vrAX)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
You start to live, When you learn to drive,
You start to have fun,
Where you used to have none.
Make your life complete,
Take the driver's seat.
Call Automobile Club of America.
Posted by: Bye, Leo! at December 26, 2025 08:15 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2025
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I understand he came to acting later in his life than most successful actors. Clearly he made up for lost time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 08:16 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
You start to live, When you learn to drive,
You start to have fun,
Where you used to have none.
Make your life complete,
Take the driver's seat.
Call Automobile Club of America.
Posted by: Bye, Leo! at December 26, 2025 08:15 AM (oftw2)
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Freaking me out. I haven't thought of that in 50 years.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 08:17 AM (A0sqA)
Delicatessens originated in Germany during the 18th century and spread to North America and Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, with European immigrants—particularly Ashkenazi Jews—playing a key role in popularizing them in the United States.
While traditionally associated with Jewish cuisine, especially featuring pastrami, corned beef, and prepared side dishes like potato salad and coleslaw, modern delis now showcase a wide range of ethnic cuisines, including Italian, Greek, and German.
In many countries, including the United States, the term is now commonly used to describe sections within supermarkets or fast food outlets, though independent delis still exist, particularly in cities like New York, where they have a long-standing cultural significance.
Posted by: AI Generated Answer at December 26, 2025 08:18 AM (wVcYX)
Kwanzaa
Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2025 08:20 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2025 08:22 AM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 08:22 AM (wzUl9)
But a great, very historical movie on YouTube is Union of Salvation, available with subtitles.
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 08:23 AM (Ia/+0)
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Can someone explain how "collective work" and "cooperative economics" fit in with "African heritage and culture" and how "unity" has kept the continent's people from becoming mired in war and poverty for centuries?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 08:24 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2025 08:24 AM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 08:22 AM (wzUl9)
And you want to leave a fantastic place like that??!!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 26, 2025 08:24 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2025 08:25 AM (czfTj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 08:24 AM (A0sqA)
Well, he was a commie liar.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 26, 2025 08:25 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2025 08:25 AM (fd80v)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 26, 2025 08:25 AM (PuFvH)
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They are sort of giving away the game here aren’t they? There are some ideas so stupid only an intellectual could believe them.
What’s been clear from the start is this insistence that “multiculturalism” is an unalloyed good, At the same time, the entire social and economic system of governance must be uprooted. Neither of these is correct.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 26, 2025 08:26 AM (bFwPh)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 26, 2025 08:26 AM (AIsYF)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2025 08:26 AM (2vrAX)
A former clerk at a Kentucky driver's licensing branch said co-workers sold illegal immigrants driver's licenses they couldn't legally obtain, charging $200 per license.
Buried in the various stories about this, that broke early in the year, coincidentally? was the fact that the number was in the high thousands. It had been reported earlier to be a "minor" issue and did not significantly affect the number of illegals driving with a bogus license, or that many were getting a "RealID" version of the license with no background info.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2025 08:27 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 08:28 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)
Um, they're not radical. They're orthodox.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: White US elementary school teachers in their 20s at December 26, 2025 08:29 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 08:24 AM (A0sqA)
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It's socialism with a hefty helping of Menorah to add a mystic feel. It's as "African" as a Nile steamer.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 08:30 AM (ZOv7s)
to acting late- at about 30 years of age. He was also a very private person and gave few interviews, so had he lived today we probably wouldn't have gotten his take on all sorts of political topics as with many actors today:
https://tinyurl.com/3r8manu2
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 08:30 AM (Nx5jP)
Dr. Neil Frank, Houston's weatherman, chief meteorologist on KHOU and Director of the National Hurricane Center, has passed on at age 94. Dr. Frank always had the straight story on storms and will be missed.
He and Dave Ward (KTRK's Eyewitness anchorman) can swap stories in that big newsroom studio in the sky. Marvin Zindler will probably join in.
Three larger than life Houston icons.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 26, 2025 08:30 AM (wVcYX)
Leo Szilard > Pope Leo
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2025 08:25 AM (fd80v)
I could say
King Leo Burgers > Pope Leo, but I don't get into stuff like that.*
*Culture acknowledgement: I know nothing of the King Leo franchise and how good the food was. I only know of it from Lileks - who, in the throes off a split, has returned to England and is staying with another man's wife and family, whether that has anything to do with it, I dunno.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 26, 2025 08:30 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2025 08:30 AM (czfTj)
And Pope Leo once again reinforces why I stay away from the Catholic Church.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2025 07:25 AM (7xrfc)
Outside of faith and morals, and even then subject to the Magisterium of the Church, popes can be just as wrong as anyone else. So I don't take stuff like this very seriously.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2025 08:31 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: For Shame! at December 26, 2025 08:31 AM (oftw2)
Kwanzaa
Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2025 08:20 AM (NpAcC)
Shirley Q does Kwanza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCGBK1E0_uQ
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)
Good point. Like saying "radical Leftism."
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 26, 2025 08:31 AM (VnsnO)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
I didn't either. I had to look it up:
The Twelve Days of Christmas, also known as Christmastide, traditionally begin on December 25 (Christmas Day) and end on January 5 (Twelfth Night). This period is significant in Christian traditions, representing the time it took for the Magi (Wise Men) to travel to Bethlehem to visit the newborn Jesus. The following day, January 6, is celebrated as Epiphany, marking the revelation of Christ to the Gentiles.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 08:31 AM (c115l)
The problem is that we have generations of corrosion to undo. But at least we have a start on healing the problems.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2025 08:32 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 26, 2025 08:32 AM (AIsYF)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 08:24 AM (A0sqA)
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It's the candles. The candles cure all the lunacy in the principles.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 26, 2025 08:32 AM (8AONa)
My father asked what was so special about it, and as I explained it, he dozed off. It was a bit amusing, but also the end of an era, as for years he and I had a competition going over who could bring up the most boring topic for conversation. I guess I win by default now.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 08:33 AM (ZOv7s)
Nice of a politician to admit that in a country where you can go to jail for saying you don't want multiculturalism.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 26, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)
Marvin Zindler will probably join in.
"SLIIIIIIIME in the ice machine!!!!"
I always enjoyed Dave Ward following "Marvin! Zindler! Eye! Witness! News!!" with a deadpan "Thank you, Marvin."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2025 08:33 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: I'm An Old Man! at December 26, 2025 08:33 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 08:34 AM (c115l)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 26, 2025 08:34 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 26, 2025 08:32 AM (AIsYF)
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Communism doesn't just annihilate, it has to replace. Nature abhors a vacuum. So they come up with alternatives that mimic virtue, but are still based on the same sins that animate their quasi-religion.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 08:34 AM (ZOv7s)
"SLIIIIIIIME in the ice machine!!!!"
Texas has a whorehouse in it!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 08:35 AM (c115l)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 08:24 AM (A0sqA)
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It's the candles. The candles cure all the lunacy in the principles.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 26, 2025 08:32 AM (8AONa)
I have candles. I design, manufacture, and sell candles.
Posted by: Gwyneth Paltrow at December 26, 2025 08:35 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 08:35 AM (c115l)
You talking generic, or the capitol?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 26, 2025 08:36 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025
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And you want to leave a fantastic place like that??!!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 26, 2025
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It's been gone for decades!
No food or music is worth the chance of being shot or mugged, or both, as well as having to deal with bad streets and lousy ten-month summers.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 08:36 AM (wzUl9)
Ditto! I'm dreading Monday.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 26, 2025 08:36 AM (VCgbV)
I am sorry. I'm not Episcopal, but even if I I were I wouldn't mention that .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 08:36 AM (rZCVI)
Nice of a politician to admit that in a country where you can go to jail for saying you don't want multiculturalism.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 26, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)
1984 talks about women be the most fervent of the believers in the state. Same as Feminism of the 60s and 70s were 100% about state control of traditionally social matters.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 08:36 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 08:31 AM (c115l)
Thank you! I imagined it exactly backwards (thinking Christmas Day would be the culmination and therefore the 12th day). And had no idea it involved the magi. An old guy can still learn something…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2025 08:36 AM (czfTj)
Basically whining, "well, but not all of those were fraudulent ballots."
Yeah, dickhead, that's exactly how vote fraud works: Launder fraudulent votes into legitimate votes.
And that's exactly why the signature on the "tape" is required.
To ensure the number of counted ballots matches the actual number cast.
But he knows that. And that's why he certified it even knowing the signatures were missing.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 26, 2025 08:36 AM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2025 08:36 AM (tgvbd)
But again, Romeny's are gonna Romney.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 26, 2025 08:37 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 26, 2025 08:36 AM (VCgbV)
We're in a change freeze, so checking my emails this morning was a breeze as 90% was spam that could simply be highlighted and shift-deleted.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2025 08:33 AM (tgvbd)
Me too. The demeanor contrast was very effective and entertaining. Dave was the unshakeable man.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 26, 2025 08:37 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 08:35 AM (c115l)
You talking generic, or the capitol?
Posted by: OrangeEnt
The honest to God real one. Had. Until Marvin Zindler got it closed.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 08:38 AM (c115l)
I’m no anti-government tax resistor crank, it’s just the whole thing has turned into a dog’s mess. Nobody making 500k or less should be paying any tax to the feds, right?
There isn’t any relationship between borrowing, spending, revenue. Scant little is being audited, apparently, and merely being laundered, stolen, whatever.
And they have a printing press. Or whatever the digital computer equivalent. Shouldn’t the first step in the “everything should be free” crowd’s armamentarium be getting rid of onerous taxation?
Just those caffeinated musings early
Posted by: Common Tater at December 26, 2025 08:38 AM (bFwPh)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2025 08:32 AM (7xrfc)
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Not really. All we have to do is remove the coercive apparatus and society will naturally return to normal. We're seeing that now. Trannies had to have a massive enforcement network to stop people from laughing at them, and it never really stopped. As those supports are broken, society reverts to what is natural and normal.
My liberal college town is LIT with Christmas spirit. At one of the shops on Christmas Eve, they had people out front bellowing "Merry CHRISTmas!" and getting enthusiastic responses. At the grocery store a clerk wished me "Happy Holidays!" and I said "Merry Christmas!" in replay and her face lit up. "Yes! Merry Christmas!"
The world is healing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 08:38 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2025 08:36 AM (tgvbd)
Too bad about his fascination with blowing things up.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 26, 2025 08:38 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Movie Maven at December 26, 2025 08:38 AM (oftw2)
And that's exactly why the signature on the "tape" is required.
To ensure the number of counted ballots matches the actual number cast.
But he knows that. And that's why he certified it even knowing the signatures were missing.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 26, 2025 08:36 AM"
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Nothing will happen.
Posted by: The person who always says that at December 26, 2025 08:38 AM (2Ez/1)
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Let's see them prove it. I automatically discount leftist claims of being threatened, unless we can see evidence. They lie all the time about this (while doing it to others.)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 26, 2025 08:38 AM (s0JqF)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 08:04 AM (gbOdA)
Yeah, I just skimmed the article but it appears that the government requiring imports to meet the same requirements placed on domestic vehicles is limiting competition while, I guess, just placing those requirements on domestic cars is good policy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 26, 2025 08:39 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: For Shame! at December 26, 2025 08:31 AM (oftw2)
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I worked for Mondale, Wilson Goode, Bruce Babbit. I am absolving you of your sins as I have been absolved.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 08:39 AM (A0sqA)
Let me know when someone is actually punished for this so I can stop holding my breath until something happens.
I'm not ready to die.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: fd
A "moderate" anything is just a little bitch that doesn't want to get the hands dirty.
Be bold! Either chop those heads yourself or stand up and shout STOP! Either way, at least it's not a little bitch move and no one feels bad for putting a missile up your ass.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 26, 2025 08:39 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: I'm An Old Man! at December 26, 2025 08:33 AM (oftw2)
I think I’ll get tattoos of letters on my fingers spelling out “Jerry Hello” so one could read that message while I work out on a pull up bar…. When someone betrays me I never forget it….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2025 08:39 AM (SSHra)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 08:34 AM (ZOv7s)
They do the same with scienctism. They form a conclusion and the write science to prove themselves correct.
No one believes it is healthy or proper to give children death drugs, but many believe that people can change their genders; so they give children death drugs.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 08:39 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: rickb223
Sure does. It is a prominent building at 1100 Congress Avenue in Austin.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 26, 2025 08:40 AM (sDWtc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCGBK1E0_uQ
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)
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LMAO.
I wonder if Michael Berry will be playing this on his radio show today?
Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2025 08:40 AM (NpAcC)
Anyone mentioning Kwanza is a virtue signaling idiot.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 26, 2025 08:40 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 08:35 AM (c115l)
You talking generic, or the capitol?
Posted by: OrangeEnt
The honest to God real one. Had. Until Marvin Zindler got it closed.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 08:38 AM (c115l)
Rumor spreading round in that Texas town
About that shack outside La Grange
And you know what I'm talking about
Just let me know if you wanna go
To that home out on the range
They gotta lotta nice girls
Have mercy!
A-haw haw haw-haw
Heh, a-haw haw-haw
Posted by: ZZ Top at December 26, 2025 08:41 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2025 08:36 AM (czfTj)
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The Wise Men are now in motion in the Catholic Nativity displays, working their way across the room to the manger.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 08:41 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 08:39 AM (A0sqA)
(narrows eyes)
You probably supported Unruh, too. Didn't you?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 26, 2025 08:43 AM (uQesX)
I'll either cut a hole in the bed or just remove the bed, that's one thing that has always perplexed me is that why do car manufacturers not put a hatch in the bed to access the fuel pump.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 26, 2025 08:43 AM (XV/Pl)
No one believes it is healthy or proper to give children death drugs, but many believe that people can change their genders; so they give children death drugs.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 08:39 AM (gbOdA)
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Medical science has lost all claims to legitimacy. Thank God.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 08:43 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man at December 26, 2025 08:44 AM (oftw2)
While we abhor the thoughts of "boots on the ground", let me point out what many aren't aware of. In order for these strikes to be successful it requires a Special Forces operative(s) on the ground to direct those strikes. These guys have balls so big it makes it tough to get around but they do.
Posted by: Sergeant Major at December 26, 2025 08:44 AM (PbU6T)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 26, 2025 08:44 AM (OhBRn)
Anyone mentioning Kwanza is a virtue signaling idiot.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 26, 2025 08:40 AM (XV/Pl)
I have fond memories of celebrating Kwanzaa when I was a little girl, eating the fine Indian foods my mom used to make, smoking weed listening to Biggie and Tupac.
Posted by: Kumswala Harris at December 26, 2025 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)
Be bold! Either chop those heads yourself or stand up and shout STOP! Either way, at least it's not a little bitch move and no one feels bad for putting a missile up your ass.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 26, 2025 08:39 AM (2J/Lj)
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Henry K said a moderate Muslim was one who had run out of ammunition.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 08:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 26, 2025 08:40 AM (XV/Pl)
Uh....
Posted by: Calendar Companies at December 26, 2025 08:45 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2025 08:39 AM (SSHra)
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Are you saying you're better than him?!
Posted by: Marvin Mandelbaum, and his son, and grandson at December 26, 2025 08:45 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 08:38 AM (ZOv7s)
I like your optimism but I’m not sure I share it entirely. My own opinion is closer to: after witnessing the millions upon millions of sheep during covid, the vast majority just follow along. If a dem wins in 28 as quickly as things have turned positive this past year, the tyranny will come surging back just that fast… think Thomas Hobbes
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2025 08:45 AM (czfTj)
Posted by: Follow me for more parenting tips at December 26, 2025 08:45 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Kumswala Harris at December 26, 2025 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)
Note perfect!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 26, 2025 08:45 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Because they don't care. It's not like they are going to be driving it.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 08:46 AM (c115l)
>>The world is healing.
How about that.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 08:46 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025
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There is a late Ellery Queen mystery, The Finishing Stroke, set in 1929 and focusing on a house party in the NYC/Long Island area which begins on Christmas Eve and runs through January 6, 1930. That was how I learned about the Twelve Days.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 08:46 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 08:39 AM (A0sqA)
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Wilson Goode! Now there's an explosive memory.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 26, 2025 08:46 AM (OhBRn)
Reading that he was in charge of DEI, I was surprised to see he looks like he does.
I'm guessing a few prongs were sipped on his way up.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 26, 2025 08:46 AM (sDWtc)
Because they don't care. It's not like they are going to be driving it.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 08:46 AM (c115l)
Cars are disposable. They expect you to buy a new one when your old one breaks.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 26, 2025 08:43 AM (uQesX)
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Let's just say mistakes were made.
*straightens tie*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 08:47 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 26, 2025 08:48 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2025 08:45 AM (czfTj)
He should never have kept the ring!
Posted by: Your Tolkien Reference for the Thread at December 26, 2025 08:48 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Sergeant Major
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Or persistent drone coverage from, you know, a base nearby. (see #110)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2025 08:48 AM (NwnyJ)
The Wise Men are now in motion in the Catholic Nativity displays, working their way across the room to the manger.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025
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Like Aslan, the Wise Men are on the move!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 08:48 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 26, 2025 08:46 AM (OhBRn)
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Oh what fun we had that summer watching west Philadelphia burn!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 08:48 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Toyota SUVs have a hatch under the back seat to remove fuel pump. The Pickups don't. I have an old Toyota motor home and just had to drop the tank. At least Toyota has a drain plug in the tank, which helps a bit.
Posted by: It's A Gas! at December 26, 2025 08:49 AM (oftw2)
Leo is an ass, my Bishop is an ass, much of the Church hierarchy is an ass, many, if not most of the GOP is an ass.
No matter. You fight with the army you got.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2025 08:49 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Sergeant Major at December 26, 2025 08:44 AM (PbU6T)
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A key point is that the Nigerian government permitted the attacks. Nigeria has a sharp north/south ethnic division, and much of the military is Muslim. Blame the British, because they liked to recruit "warlike" peoples as their enforcers and ethnic division was a feature, not a bug. Thus the Christians in the south are always outgunned.
There have been attempts at crackdowns, but the Nigerian military is itself compromised, hence allowing foreigners to take a shot. The Biafran War was an attempt to resolve this problem vis secession but it failed, in part because at that time, people feared redrawing boundaries in Africa. That line has since been crossed (Sudan), so Nigeria may yet break apart, leaving the Muslim north cut off from the Christian oil money in the south.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 08:49 AM (ZOv7s)
Wilson Goode! Now there's an explosive memory.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 26, 2025 08:46 AM (OhBRn)
He was da bomb!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2025 08:49 AM (tgvbd)
I m sorry. I didn't recall that. It's good for him to hear other points of view, but is there whatever the
conservative variety of the Episcopal church is that you could go to? The ACNA ( Anglican Church of North America) you could go. I'd welcome you to our church, but it would be a long conmute😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 08:49 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Sergeant Major at December 26, 2025 08:44 AM (PbU6T)
Thank you - John Clark
Posted by: Clear and Present Danger at December 26, 2025 08:50 AM (wVcYX)
No matter. You fight with the army you got.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2025 08:49 AM (cYBz/)
I didn't leave the Catholic Church, it left me.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)
Always loved it when he and Calvin were out in the snow.
Posted by: Good times. Good times. at December 26, 2025 08:50 AM (2Ez/1)
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We lived in Philly at the same time then. In my case for only two years before moving on.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 26, 2025 08:50 AM (OhBRn)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2025 08:45 AM (czfTj)
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There was nothing wrong with trusting the people put in charge of public safety. They then betrayed that trust in every imaginable way. That toothpaste is not going back into the tube.
Pick your indicator. Public trust has collapse, vaccine uptake has collapsed, gun sales are demographically more widespread than every and - most significantly "nice Christianity" is dead. We all felt the spiritual shift. The devil wants us to think it's only temporary, and so we should just be ready to put chains on again.
Don't believe it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 08:52 AM (ZOv7s)
I remember Biden saying how under his tax plan, no family making under 400k would pay any taxes. And then the media had to publish "Oh, that's not what he REALLY said."
The world is healing.
I agree completely. My concern, whether or not it's logical, is that once we get someone more liberal at the controls the good works will be undone.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2025 08:53 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 26, 2025 08:46 AM (OhBRn)
He was da bomb!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2025 08:49 AM (tgvbd)
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His wife thought his temper had a short fuse
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 26, 2025 08:53 AM (OhBRn)
Good Morning, Ben Had.
As of last night she was doing well. I'm getting the plumbers settled and then off to see her in a bit.
Thanks for asking.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 08:53 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Wilson Goode at December 26, 2025 08:54 AM (oftw2)
And all we got as a result was a guy named Jello.
Posted by: PabloD at December 26, 2025 08:54 AM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 26, 2025 08:55 AM (Zhwz2)
Good Morning, Ben Had.
As of last night she was doing well. I'm getting the plumbers settled and then off to see her in a bit.
Thanks for asking.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 08:53 AM (viF8m)
I pray that all will turn out well for her, Jack.
Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2025 08:55 AM (pDt9x)
I'm afraid to open it. I mean, original Gold Foil Edition, unopened.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2025 08:56 AM (2vrAX)
I'm afraid to open it. I mean, original Gold Foil Edition, unopened.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)
That’s a VERY nice gift, Sponge!
Posted by: tubal at December 26, 2025 08:56 AM (pDt9x)
That reminds me. My truck is almost due for it's second 125k transmission fluid change.
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025 08:56 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: White US elementary school teachers
And only 175 days until Junteenth!
Posted by: White US middle school teachers at December 26, 2025 08:56 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 08:56 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Mediocrates the First of his Lard at December 26, 2025 08:57 AM (WTtpy)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 08:57 AM (viF8m)
@EricLDaugh
INFURIATING: A Minnesota leftist judge OVERTURNED a Somali fraud guilty verdict, which was UNANIMOUS.
"The judge didn't [even] say the fraud didn't happen!"
Tim Walz's Minnesota is DEEPLY corrupt. Voters need to CLEAN HOUSE!
https://tinyurl.com/4mm7h8ut
Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2025 08:58 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)
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The Church Militant is the prime enemy of Satan, and it is always and everywhere buckling under the strain of war. It's why in every Communist revolution, the Church is the number one target for suppression and subversion.
Francis failed. The seminaries are packed with theologically conservative young men, and the suppression of the TLM and weird gay crap is the rearguard action of desperate people.
When you are ready, you will be welcome home. Until then, know that we miss you.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 08:58 AM (ZOv7s)
If you only look at superficial markers, events look frightening because our enemies both domestic and foreign have gone into an all out assault mode. But this because they already feel the ground sliding out from under their feet, and know that they must move now or never.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2025 08:58 AM (xTuYU)
Posted by: PabloD at December 26, 2025 08:59 AM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Doof at December 26, 2025 08:59 AM (QMAsf)
The pump itself was close to being 'life if vehicle'
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 26, 2025 08:59 AM (8AONa)
Posted by: Mediocrates the First of his Lard at December 26, 2025 08:57 AM (WTtpy)
I'm not sure where Leo Gorcey fits in there.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 26, 2025 09:00 AM (wVcYX)
It's 60 degrees outside and it makes me want to go for a walk. It smells like Spring out there. Dammit. Temps will be back in the 20's and 30's in a few days.
I got a very cool kaleidoscope for Christmas.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 26, 2025 09:01 AM (2J/Lj)
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I'm tired of constantly attacking every damn country because a bunch of foreigners i care nothing about have some stupid foreign problem.
But especially when we have so many cities like Minneapolis that are just begging for pitiless day-and-night airstrikes.
#BringBackOurMunitions
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 26, 2025 09:02 AM (Zhwz2)
Posted by: Uncle Leo! Hello! at December 26, 2025 09:02 AM (2Ez/1)
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That is not the tough choice he thinks it is.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 26, 2025 09:02 AM (0U5gm)
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The judicial coup isn't 'just" a Trump problem.
It's an "everybody" problem. It should have been addressed back in January when things with the illegals started to go south... so to speak, and all those TRO's started to drop.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2025 09:02 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2025 09:03 AM (SSHra)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)
I didn't get a kaleidoscope, nor a hippopotamus, sadly.
Posted by: Very Fixed Income at December 26, 2025 09:04 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2025 09:04 AM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 09:04 AM (Ia/+0)
That reminds me. My truck is almost due for it's second 125k transmission fluid change.
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2025
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The second transmission fluid change (under my watch) for the Buick will be coming up in about 7K miles, along with the first ever spark plug change in about 2K. Oil change, too, in about a month. The car, a 2016, is currently at 93,500 miles and drives like a new car.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 09:05 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2025 08:58 AM (xTuYU)
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The final year of war is almost always the bloodiest. The US Civil War, both world wars, heck, the Spanish Civil War all demonstrate this.
Note that the issue was already decided. The losing side was going to lose. But there is something about that despair that induces a nihilist frenzy, where in their pride and wrath they decide to wreck everything within reach.
That is what the left is doing now. There is no long-term strategy, no path of governance, just violence and rule by fear. Do not falter. See what is happening and know that God permitted this trial to strengthen us, and so it has. Adult conversions are soaring, even in Europe. Especially in Europe. Gwen Stefani has gone from the "Hollaback Girl" to reading scripture with a nun. Lots of celebrities are suddenly finding religion. Could be fake, but the winds have shifted.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 09:05 AM (ZOv7s)
https://tinyurl.com/enkbdrdn
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 26, 2025 09:06 AM (ji8TS)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
Don't forget the points and condenser.
Posted by: Cities Service at December 26, 2025 09:07 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 26, 2025 09:08 AM (2NHgQ)
It's an "everybody" problem. It should have been addressed back in January when things with the illegals started to go south... so to speak, and all those TRO's started to drop.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2025 09:02 AM (NwnyJ)
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This is useful. Helpful, even. It lets people wonder if judges were always this corrupt. There is no legal principle other than "make society bloody and lawless."
It's a bold strategy. Let's see how that works out for them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 09:09 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2025 08:27 AM (NwnyJ)
And, no doubt, being registered to vote.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 26, 2025 09:09 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Your local NAPA store at December 26, 2025 09:09 AM (2Ez/1)
It's 60 degrees outside and it makes me want to go for a walk. It smells like Spring out there. Dammit. Temps will be back in the 20's and 30's in a few days.
I got a very cool kaleidoscope for Christmas.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 26, 2025 09:01 AM (2J
******
We leave our decorations up until the Epiphany.
Which is the day after my mom's birthday it's always been a tradition in our family.
It takes a long time to put them up so I wanna enjoy them as much as possible. It's always sad to take them down.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2025 09:10 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 09:05 AM (ZOv7s)
Good point but my caution is this: In human wars, contests of arms, you can have “permanent” winners and losers. In spiritual warfare, however, the only permanent result happens at the end of our universe… at that point we know God destroys and punishes evil. The good guys win… however, short of that in this age there will never be an ultimate victory over the forces of evil. They’ll always come flooding back until the very end
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2025 09:10 AM (SSHra)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 26, 2025 09:11 AM (2Ez/1)
Brother's family have a new dog, a puppy, that was rescued from a trash dumpster. It's a cute young female, but a raucous puppy. FiL was eating and the dog would come up to him. He'd kick at it and cuss at it in an effort to make it go away. We'd get her and try to keep her away. She'd go back over to him after a couple minutes, where he'd use different cuss words and kick at her.
I finally yelled at him to stop as she's just a puppy and still learning.
Wife looked at me and said "Welcome to my childhood. He never had ANY patience for much of anything."
I realized just how rough her life was until we got together and made each other whole.
I was 'this close' to looking at him and saying "No wonder you're alone."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)
Minnesota is a monarchy. Good to know!
Posted by: gKWVE at December 26, 2025 09:13 AM (sDWtc)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 09:05 AM (wzUl9)
I've been telling the First Daughter since her young athlete days, you take care of your equipment, your equipment will take care of you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 09:14 AM (Zz0t1)
Not Korea however.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 26, 2025 09:14 AM (sDWtc)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 08:34 AM (c115l)
I haven't gotten a single work email this week.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 26, 2025 09:15 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2025 09:10 AM (SSHra)
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And that's why we have to always remember that we will be dead longer than we are alive. Death is not the worst thing that can happen to us. It's inevitable. Our task is to serve God, despite the odds, despite everything, and never to give up hope.
I long expected full-on civil war. I even circled July, 2024 as the start date, because I figured that was when Trump would be killed.
But he didn't die. Against every possible vulnerability, he did not die. This sign was given to all of us. Do we trust in it, or do we fall back into despair, worry and spreading fear? I choose to live in a place of hope, and look for better days to come. We passed through a darkness worse than we ever imagined. I will savor the sunlight while I can.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 09:15 AM (ZOv7s)
Matthew 5:17
Posted by: Marcus T at December 26, 2025 09:15 AM (HaVaX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Dicks out for Harambee
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 26, 2025 09:16 AM (AIsYF)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 09:16 AM (Nx5jP)
Audio by Penelope Keith. Amazing that I don't need subtitles to understand each and every word.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD34J0uO5QU
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 26, 2025 09:17 AM (Of9Lz)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 26, 2025 09:14 AM (sDWtc)
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Korea was not fought to the finish. Lots of wars that end in negotiated settlements don't have that final frenzy. They peter out because neither side can keep them going.
I'm talking about ones with a clear, lasting decision, not monarchs arguing about who gets to be the Duke of Bavaria or something.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 09:17 AM (ZOv7s)
That is not the tough choice he thinks it is.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 26, 2025 09:02 AM (0U5gm)
fixed it
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 26, 2025 09:17 AM (gbOdA)
She had an operation on her wrist a week ago. Nothing very serious. But the wound somehow got infected and they did another surgery on Tuesday to clean it up and try to figure out what happened. They still don't know.
Hopefully they get this figured out soon so she can go home. Thanks.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 09:18 AM (viF8m)
The bigger issue is this particular truck was constructed to be as difficult to work on as possible. Dropping the fuel tank is not an option as pretty much every bolt holding in the tank is rust seized or rust welded, the bed bolts look fine and I have a tractor so I can lift the bed off no problem, it's just this job would probably take an hour tops if there simply was a hatch to access the fuel tank.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 26, 2025 09:18 AM (XV/Pl)
I want to figure out a way to use some vintage linens. Old lace doilies that I will never use but they are very pretty.
My dad had a huge collection of those wooden nutcracker things. They came out every Christmas and I was drafted to put them up on a very high shelf. And take them down afterwards. I hate those things. When Pappymayhem went home to God, the nutcrackers were divided up between Hubbymayhem and Thing One and Thing Two. So we have custody of these ugly, creepy things. My sister in law found a print on canvas of three nutcrackers standing in a row. Bought at a yard sale and given to me as a joke. My girl spawn will be painting over it with her original work. It's nice to have an artist in the family.
I just realized though.... I could paint over that crap and stick vintage lace on that canvas. Aaaaannnnndd, the girl took it with her. Dammit.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 26, 2025 09:20 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
I have never met anyone anywhere who celebrates Kwanza. More people celebrate Festivus than Kwanza, and Festivus isn't even real.
Posted by: Doof at December 26, 2025 09:20 AM (QMAsf)
She bought me a new wallet and I got her a new crucifix. That's what she wanted so. .
Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2025 09:21 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2025 09:10 AM (NpAcC)
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Growing up, we followed the notion that the decorations went up after Thanksgiving and came down after New Years.
My Catholic grandparents used a different schedule, putting them up in December and leaving them up into January, for this weird thing called "Epiphany."
Now I get it. We split the difference, putting them up earlier, leaving them up later. The Advent wreath has been taken down, though.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 26, 2025 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)
Nigeria is doing better than the US in that while the Nigerian government is doing "a damn thing" the US has been overtly hostile to its own non-Muslim residents and has been deliberately importing not only garden variety terrorist Muslims, but the highly motivated terrorist Muslims - and the Left (including many Jews and apostate "Christians") are giving them tens of billions of dollars and whole chunks of the country to dig in and wage asymmetric warfare against Christians.
I'll take "not a damn thing" over the current policy in the US and that is "help Islam prosper and flourish to the detriment of everyone else"
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 26, 2025 09:21 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 26, 2025 09:21 AM (2NHgQ)
I have never met anyone anywhere who celebrates Kwanza. More people celebrate Festivus than Kwanza, and Festivus isn't even real.
Posted by: Doof at December 26, 2025 09:20 AM (QMAsf)
My black neighbors don't celebrate Kwanzaa.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 09:22 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
I haven't gotten a single work e-mail since August 20, 2007.
Posted by: Layabout Lenny. at December 26, 2025 09:22 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
I had a truck with that configuration...S-10?
We jacked the bed up. Not horrible.
Posted by: MkY at December 26, 2025 09:22 AM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2025 09:24 AM (czfTj)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 09:24 AM (viF8m)
I have a feeling that all of this "Backlash" rhetoric coming from the Left is just another example of "accusations are their confessions" in that there will indeed be Backlash™ in that the imported Islamic terrorists will respond in their f'd up way here in the US for the bombing raids in Nigeria. (which costs Americans tens of millions and yields us nothing more than a kicked over hornet's nest)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 26, 2025 09:24 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
I haven't gotten a single work e-mail since August 20, 2007.
Posted by: Layabout Lenny
Pfffffffffttt.
Posted by: Cousin Eddie at December 26, 2025 09:24 AM (c115l)
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 26, 2025 09:24 AM (dfByx)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025
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I've been telling the First Daughter since her young athlete days, you take care of your equipment, your equipment will take care of you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025
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My long-time mechanic is always saying with astonishment how people will buy these upper-end cars, Mercedes, BMW, etc., and then let the upkeep slide until the bill is $$$. After my teen years riding buses and cadging rides from increasingly-reluctant friends, I am so *glad* to have a car -- let alone a great and reliable one -- that I am very careful to maintain it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 09:24 AM (wzUl9)
We jacked the bed up. Not horrible.
Posted by: MkY at December 26, 2025 09:22 AM (q6tQZ)
6 bolts on the bed of my 96 Ranger. Remove the 4 screws holding the filler pipe to the bed and tilt the bed up like a dump truck. Fuel tank is fully accessible. It's rare enough to need to change the pump, I haven't cared about making an access hole.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 26, 2025 09:26 AM (a4flb)
But they're so purty looking from the ol' couch on the front porch. You can see the lights twinkling reflected from the windshield of the '72 El Camino.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 26, 2025 09:26 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 26, 2025 09:26 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)
>>We jacked the bed up. Not horrible.
Yeah, there are six bolts holding on the bed, three bolts holding on the filler neck, the tail lights need to come off and wiring harnesses need to be detached to free the bed, again this would have been a hour job tops with a hatch.
I even got a new lock ring and a fitting kit just in case, it's probably going to a half a day job.....
.....And I've just jinxed myself
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 26, 2025 09:26 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Doof
When retail sales doesn't jump at another chance to sell moar crap, you know your holiday is a stinker.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 09:26 AM (c115l)
Or, you know, the pilots could've simply donned their O2 masks and initiated an emergency descent and been down to safe altitude in a couple of minutes -the way it's always been done.
The pilot in me suspects the crew just wanted to watch the technology in action.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 26, 2025 09:26 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)
Heh heh. Heh heh. You said "access hole"
Posted by: Doof at December 26, 2025 09:27 AM (QMAsf)
Prayers and blessings coming your way.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 26, 2025 09:27 AM (HaVaX)
Posted by: Doof
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Pretty sure that the only ones who celebrate Kwanzaa are politicians.
Same goes for juneteenth.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 26, 2025 09:28 AM (Lo97M)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 09:29 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 09:29 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 09:29 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 26, 2025 09:30 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 09:30 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Don Black at December 26, 2025 09:30 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 09:30 AM (c115l)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 09:30 AM (wzUl9)
Hopefully they get this figured out soon so she can go home. Thanks.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 09:18 AM (viF8m)
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A prayer for complete and speedy healing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 09:31 AM (9ipOP)
Back in the day we changed them every 20k or less. Twice a year in the carburetor, points & condenser era. If you wanted a sharp tune, engine to start in the winter.
Today? The automotive forums are chock full of folks who write “changed the plugs, now it has a miss, it’s throwing codes” etc etc. Old habits die hard, but.
I would change the spark plug wires before putting a wrench on the plugs.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 26, 2025 09:31 AM (kU8k8)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 26, 2025 09:32 AM (Zhwz2)
Probably since Kwanza stimulates more shoplifting
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 26, 2025 09:32 AM (a4flb)
Daddy didn't love her, and no one is willing to watch her work a pole.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 26, 2025 09:32 AM (a4flb)
Back in the day we changed them every 20k or less. Twice a year in the carburetor, points & condenser era. If you wanted a sharp tune, engine to start in the winter.
Today? The automotive forums are chock full of folks who write “changed the plugs, now it has a miss, it’s throwing codes” etc etc. Old habits die hard, but.
I would change the spark plug wires before putting a wrench on the plugs.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 26, 2025
***
The 2016 Buick's owner's manual has 95K as the change interval. But you're right, the car is running superbly and getting great mileage even on E10. I might let it go a while.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 09:33 AM (wzUl9)
It's at 240k miles now and still runs like a top. She is due for a transmission fluid change, though.
I'm still amazed at the cost savings I've been able to realize doing all the work myself.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 26, 2025 09:28 AM (Lo97M)
I celebrate juneteenth! Well, ummm... Actually I just celebrate my birthday but it's on juneteenth so.... Whatever.
I find it amusing that demoncrats made my birthday a federal holiday.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 26, 2025 09:35 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 26, 2025 09:36 AM (HaVaX)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 26, 2025 09:36 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Amber Heard at December 26, 2025 09:36 AM (0sNs1)
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This article is filled with AI generated "help"
Posted by: ... at December 26, 2025 09:43 AM (O42gO)
Also Garfield's birthday.
Posted by: ... at December 26, 2025 09:44 AM (O42gO)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 09:45 AM (ix8EF)
Posted by: ... at December 26, 2025 09:51 AM (O42gO)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 10:05 AM (Nx5jP)
Daily Tech News 26 December 2025
Top Story
- AI has reached the Uncanny Valley. (The Verge) (archive site)
I gave Buddy the same dialogue as in the commercial, using my son's name rather than Emma. Hearing that same manufactured voice say my kid's name out loud set alarm bells off in my head. An AI generated Buddy in front of the Eiffel Tower? Sorta weird, sorta cute. AI Buddy addressing my son by name? Nope, absolutely not, no thank you.
Even the idiots at The Verge are, when it comes down to it, human.
- 2025 marked the year when Hollywood embraced AI, and the results were, frankly, awful. (The Verge) (archive site)
Amazon's gen-AI dubs became a shining example of how poorly this technology can perform. They also highlighted how some studios aren't putting all that much effort into making sure that their gen AI-derived projects are polished enough to be released to the public. That was also true of Amazon's machine-generated TV recaps, which frequently got details about different shows very wrong. Both of these fiascos made it seem as if Amazon somehow thought that people wouldn't notice or care about AI's inability to consistently generate high-quality outputs. The studio quickly pulled its AI-dubbed series and the recap feature down, but it didn't say that it wouldn't try this kind of nonsense again.
Lots of juicy AI hate from The Verge today.
Tech News
- It's not a bubble: Nvidia has paid Groq - which was valued at $6.9 billion as of September - $20 billion in cash for a non-exclusive license to its inference technology. (CNBC) (archive site)
Groq who?
- Framework is increasing memory prices in its laptops to $10 per gigabyte effective immediately. (Tom's Hardware)
On the one hand, that is about the average retail price now.
On the other hand, I paid less than that and got the rest of the PC thrown in free.
- The MiniForum BD895i SE is a mini-ITX motherboard using laptop RAM with a laptop CPU soldered in place. (Notebook Check)
It has a 16-core 55W Ryzen 8945HX and room for two SODIMMs and two M.2 SSDs. Three video outputs, three audio jacks, four USB ports, and 2.5Gb Ethernet.
A soldered-in CPU might seem like a bad idea until you realise that this board is as fast as a 12-core Ryzen 9900X desktop CPU and also costs the same as a 12-core Ryzen 9900X.
- MinisForum also announced a PCIe OCuLink card. (Notebook Check)
I mean, sure, I guess. OCuLink is for external PCIe devices and this only works if you have internal PCIe slots available. Useful if you have a system that can only fit a half-height single-slot card and you want to attach a GPU.
Disclaimer: A sin? A mere peccadillo, I would say. More sherry?
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 26, 2025 04:00 AM (BJnkV)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 04:00 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at December 26, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 04:00 AM (Ia/+0)
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Are you pre or post coffee?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 26, 2025 04:01 AM (BJnkV)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 04:01 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at December 26, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)
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Yesterday I had a ruff day!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 26, 2025 04:01 AM (BJnkV)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 26, 2025 04:03 AM (BJnkV)
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 26, 2025 04:04 AM (5C3gx)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 26, 2025 04:06 AM (BLOW1)
There's a gun in your hand it's pointing at your head
ho ho ho
Posted by: m at December 26, 2025 04:13 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 04:25 AM (Ia/+0)
https://x.com/KatiePavlich/status/2004326650490871935
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at December 26, 2025 04:57 AM (y7zkd)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 26, 2025 05:03 AM (L1JuH)
Posted by: Skip
Nah. Russia has a long history of everything going wrong and millions die. It's part of there charm.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 26, 2025 05:07 AM (L1JuH)
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at December 26, 2025 05:09 AM (y7zkd)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 05:13 AM (Ia/+0)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 26, 2025 05:17 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: fluffy at December 26, 2025 05:18 AM (AN2gy)
are Christmasy and Hordelike.Posted by: m at December 26, 2025 05:24 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 26, 2025 05:25 AM (RuTUS)
Coffee = good.
If I want to have a good morning there must be coffee.
Therefore: Coffee morning.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 26, 2025 05:31 AM (O7YUW)
Damin Toell
@damintoell
Half of the accounts on this app will be wiped out
Yashar Ali 🐘
@yashar
11h
BREAKING
President Trump says he ordered US military strikes against ISIS targets in Nigeria.
Posted by: m at December 26, 2025 05:33 AM (RuTUS)
You are either quite the early riser or a serious night owl.
Posted by: fluffy at December 26, 2025 05:35 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: fluffy at December 26, 2025 05:35 AM (AN2gy)
You say that like it's a bad thing!
Posted by: m at December 26, 2025 05:49 AM (RuTUS)
Not a bad Christmas Day at Schloss Wolfus. Roast chicken and stuffing for dinner, with some shortbread cookies after. Watched the original "Grinch" TV special, and then the 1978 Watership Down. (Though Grumpy Cat's Christmas still looms on the DVD stack.) Linda gave me a handsome mahogany jewelry/cigar box that I can use for my pipe tobaccos, and (get this) an air purifier, a small household version of the kind the pipe/cigar store uses. This will be interesting, to see how the cats react to it.
Howzabout you?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 06:01 AM (wzUl9)
>>>But rather than pummeling AI purveyors into the ground
Sounds like a job for Pixy!
Posted by: m at December 26, 2025 06:02 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 26, 2025 06:03 AM (qbLEp)
Rejoinder: Your Majesty is like a stream of bat's piss.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 26, 2025
***
"By which we presume you mean, warm and golden? . . . Off with his head!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 06:05 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fluffy at December 26, 2025 06:07 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 26, 2025 06:09 AM (xG4kz)
saw a glorious sunset as well as the large, decorated tree in the local town.
1st Thessalonians 5:12-24
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 06:12 AM (ZeH0U)
Whatever fills your cup and caffeinates you.
"Your Majesty is like a stream of bat's piss."
Okay maybe not that.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 26, 2025 06:13 AM (O7YUW)
Folks still gorged and snoring, it seems. That, or their girding their loins to go snag "bargains" amid the ruins of shopped over areas.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 26, 2025 06:13 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 06:13 AM (ZeH0U)
Going up to about 79 today, so that's not good.
Maybe I'll wander out to a local coffee shop later.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 06:16 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 06:16 AM (ZeH0U)
Two days of celebrating amidst the in-laws. A very pleasant, if not outright fun all around. However, too many of my in-laws drink too much -- not judging, but sad to witness.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 26, 2025 06:17 AM (xG4kz)
I'm teaching the same metalworking workshop of two days' duration this weekend and the
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 26, 2025 06:18 AM (xG4kz)
Well, we're going up to 32 degrees and are supposed to get 4-8 inches of snow later. Well, it will look pretty on the trees.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 06:19 AM (ZeH0U)
next. The choice of dates was my own. The missus is a rapt pupil in the first one, along with one other person
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 26, 2025 06:19 AM (xG4kz)
What an interesting craft!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 06:21 AM (ZeH0U)
Oh, and the Killer Kittenz From Outer Space are having fun with the wrapping paper. Everybody's happy. (I don't know how to deal with this state of affairs!)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 06:21 AM (wzUl9)
We'll see if the weather puts the kibosh on the whole teaching thing this weekend.
Anyway, today I have to go set up the classroom.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 26, 2025 06:22 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025
***
Trade ya, Fen!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 06:22 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 26, 2025 06:24 AM (2NHgQ)
JJ's kind of early ...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 26, 2025 06:24 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025
***
Sim amazes me. I've seen Green for Danger (where he plays an eccentric but very competent police detective) and another of his films on YooToob, and the Scrooge film more than once. He had a wonderful ability to be funny and dangerous at the same time, or to be simultaneously creepy and pitiable, depending on the role. An actor's actor, he was.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 26, 2025 06:25 AM (wzUl9)
So the verge thinks if Disney keeps trying to adopt AI technology for use in their productions, that other studios will follow suit (because they'll have to) and that there's no telling how long we'll be subjected to this AI nonsense then.
STOP. BUYING. DISNEY'S. CRAP.
Don't buy nothin', won't BE nothin'.
Framework is increasing memory prices in its laptops to $10 per gigabyte effective immediately.
So that's an additional $320 on top of what you should be paying if you want 32 gigs.
Guess who won't be buying into those crap prices?
A soldered-in CPU might seem like a bad idea
My knee-jerk response is that it is a bad idea, but then I have to remember that I build for long term stability, and by the time I've used up a machine, EVERYTHING has changed.
The last time I bought a drop-in replacement chip for an existing computer was in the late 80's when I replaced all the serial COMM chips in computers I had (the 8250 which sucked rocks at any rate higher than 9600 bps) with the National Semiconductor 16500 (NS16550AFN) which could lock in at 115,200 bps.
So yeah, a soldered CPU would be fine.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 26, 2025 06:29 AM (O7YUW)
g'mornin' again, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 26, 2025 06:31 AM (tljrc)
"Eyes opened by God:
https://tinyurl.com/4ze7pb4e
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 06:31 AM (ZeH0U)
Someone else here recommended that film. I haven't seen it. I'll have to look for it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 06:33 AM (ZeH0U)
I'm glad Miss appreciated the gifts. I got FenSpouse flavored coffee as well.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 06:34 AM (ZeH0U)
https://archive.is/2sJyd
Philpot
By Penelope Mortimer
The New Yorker 1962
Posted by: m at December 26, 2025 06:36 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 06:38 AM (ZeH0U)
20- the assurance of God's saving work:
https://tinyurl.com/48epv6wv
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 06:39 AM (ZeH0U)
I dump all cookies and cache when I close my browser, and I don't normally sign into YouTube. So when I start my day fresh and open my browser, the algorithm has NO idea what the heck I want. This is good.
Yesterday I spent pretty much all day watching videos by "The Fat Electrician". The algorithm tuned in pretty hard on those, with some alternate selections on military history, from channel names that looked to be obvious AI slop nonsense. Avoided those.
Now we've thrown Pet Shop boys into the mix, and the algorithm is having a frothing-at-the-mouth "WHAT?!" moment.
I am... entertained.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 26, 2025 06:40 AM (O7YUW)
Thanks. I'll have to check that out a little later. The New Yorker had some wonderful writers.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 06:44 AM (ZeH0U)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 26, 2025 07:01 AM (u82oZ)
Christmas Overnight Open Thread - December 25, 2025 [Doof]
4:58 am on Christmas morning and mom has already started the chain of lung darts that will be necessary to endure this shitshow … pic.twitter.com/TnWbbnPkeh
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) December 25, 2025
----- When the presents are all opened
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 09:43 PM (XSP3T)
Posted by: davidt at December 25, 2025 09:44 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: mindful webworker - tv trivia facts at December 25, 2025 09:45 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 09:46 PM (XSP3T)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 09:46 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Steven at December 25, 2025 09:46 PM (HS1/y)
❤️
Posted by: mindful webworker - a distant thurd at December 25, 2025 09:47 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 09:47 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 25, 2025 09:48 PM (Wv0GD)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 09:48 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Otto Pen at December 25, 2025 09:49 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Wenceslas at December 25, 2025 09:49 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 09:49 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 09:46 PM (XSP3T)
So were we. Still are, as far as we are concerned.
Posted by: Team USA mens basketball, Munich 1972 at December 25, 2025 09:50 PM (Wv0GD)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 25, 2025 09:51 PM (Wv0GD)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 09:46 PM (XSP3T)
Grinch done stoled it
Posted by: Otto Pen at December 25, 2025 09:52 PM (sJHOI)
"4:58 am on Christmas morning" - I recall that TV tray.
I believe Mom is smoking menthols.
Posted by: mindful webworker - false memories at December 25, 2025 09:52 PM (uPdbI)
Delilah's Register of Merit certificate arrived in the mail on Tuesday. The postmark indicated it had been mailed on October 30th.
I blame Bulg.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 09:53 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: mindful webworker - false memories at December 25, 2025 09:52 PM (uPdbI)
Nowadays, Child Protective Services would apprehend the kids because Mama is exposing them to second-hand smoke.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 09:54 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 09:55 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 09:53 PM (tgvbd)
He didn't get the job. Showed up for the interview on time, and the union nixed it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 09:55 PM (npFr7)
It’s quiet. I’m kinda sad. Hope y’all are safe and warm and have a hand to hold and a person to snuggle.
Sometimes I think that would be really nice.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2025 09:56 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2025 09:56 PM (uQesX)
A drink of what?
Asshole looks like he's drinking a parfait.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 25, 2025 09:56 PM (xzkgE)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 09:57 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: mindful webworker
Nowadays, Child Protective Services would apprehend the kids because Mama is exposing them to second-hand smoke.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
My Sainted Mother worked midnights as a L&D nurse. Our most persistent memories is one of her seated at the breakfast table in a slip, smoking a cig with a two inch ash, and a cold cup of coffee in front of her.
She was a wonderful lady. Man, I miss her.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 09:57 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2025 09:56 PM (IhIKR)
{{{Nurse}}}
Sons gone home already?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 09:57 PM (npFr7)
OK, not really. There was nothing "standing," and it was boneless. I got it at Costco, a USDA prime ribeye chunk, 5 point 3 or whatever, enough to feed our family, those that were with us, of seven.
I had bought a thermometer probe connected to a bluetooth thing that reported progress to my phone. I gave it the sea salt (lots) then pepper, then and oil rub then a whole lot of chopped fresh rosemary leaves, and a place in the fridge to brine for 14 hours. Then out and rest to get some warmth from the room, then into a 200 F. oven for . . .
You know all the rest. It was perfect. Medium rare end to end, through and through, the 525 F. quick heat bomb at the end giving it a coat of burn. Melt in your mouth beef, perfectly cooked, perfectly seasoned.
All got washed down with a Cannonau de Sardegna grenache red wine, lots of it.
Posted by: M. Gaga at December 25, 2025 09:57 PM (KiBMU)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 09:58 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 09:58 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2025 09:59 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 25, 2025 09:51 PM (Wv0GD)
Die Hard is for viewing on Christmas Eve. White Christmas is Christmas Day.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 25, 2025 09:59 PM (zBIzS)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 09:58 PM (lUFok)
Except for the sun beginning to rise earlier and earlier.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2025 09:59 PM (uQesX)
All got washed down with a Cannonau de Sardegna grenache red wine, lots of it.
Posted by: M. Gaga at December 25, 2025 09:57 PM (KiBMU)
/Fist bump.... just finished up dinner.... Rib Roast, reverse sear, just like you did.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 10:00 PM (mP0Kj)
Merry Christmas, everyone 🎄🎄🎄
You never know which present is going to be "the one" - DD#3 loved the silly box of Panda-shaped Band-Aids that I bought on a whim. SIL#2 was thrilled with a book I got him which was out-of-print which he had been wanting for a long time. He had just checked on Amazon and was disappointed to find that it was "unavailable" ('cuz we had already bought it for him 😊
, so when he opened it today, he was beyond thrilled.
Hubby asked how much we had spent on it, and I told him it didn't matter, because of how happy it made SIL (who is just the sweetest). He was okay after I told him, because he agreed with me (he's the sweetest, too!).
Gave DD#1 & DD#3 both versions of the same afghan that I made last year - different colorways that worked with their respective home decors - they both loved them! Forgot to take a picture of them with them, though, and they have already packed them up since they are leaving tomorrow 😪.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas with those that they love 😊♥️🎄
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 10:00 PM (XSP3T)
Asshole looks like he's drinking a parfait.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 25, 2025 09:56 PM (xzkgE)
I thought maybe an Irish Coffee, or a hot rum toddy garnished with Kahlua.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 10:00 PM (npFr7)
So for the first time in my life, I cooked a standing rib roast today.
_________
Are there sitting and lying rib roasts?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 10:00 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Steven at December 25, 2025 10:00 PM (HS1/y)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 25, 2025 10:00 PM (L1JuH)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Son#1 was here this morning, then went to his dads.
Marine and wife were here for Thanksgiving, so stayed in SoCal to spend Christmas with her folks.
All good. I should be more thankful.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2025 10:01 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
The bleakness is the best part.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
You both asked for it!
https://youtu.be/XD-3b8g7ylc
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 10:01 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 10:02 PM (tgvbd)
This Trump Dude's power is awesome!!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 10:02 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 10:03 PM (rdVOm)
Puddleglum, (((hugs))). I, too, have lived the troglodyte lifestyle. May you touch the sky and grass soon.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 10:04 PM (kpS4V)
Asshole looks like he's drinking a parfait.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
Layered drinks are sorority-girl drinks.
Santa's mackin' on the 22-year-old hotties.
"Ever seen me slide up a chimney?"
* eyebrow waggle *
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 10:04 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: From about That Time at December 25, 2025 10:04 PM (sl73Y)
Mostly we got new underwear.
My wife and I just got back from our daughter and son in laws house where we celebrated with our grandsons who are five and ten. The amount of gifts they received was amazing. But the best part is when they thanked us and told us how much they love us. Not just for gifts but for what we do with them all year.
I’m going to make an old fashioned and then off to bed. Merry Christmas all.
Posted by: RetSgtRN at December 25, 2025 10:04 PM (C1VyU)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 10:04 PM (kpS4V)
Slate-grey clouds
Freezing winds
Darkness
Snow turning into frozen muck
No prospect of springtime
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 10:05 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 10:05 PM (npFr7)
It’s quiet. I’m kinda sad. Hope y’all are safe and warm and have a hand to hold and a person to snuggle.
Sometimes I think that would be really nice.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2025 09:56 PM (IhIKR)
{{{Hugs}}}, Nurse. Much love to you ♥️♥️♥️
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 10:05 PM (XSP3T)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 10:06 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2025 10:06 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 10:06 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 25, 2025 10:06 PM (DiN/5)
Freezing winds
Darkness
Snow turning into frozen muck
No prospect of springtime
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Sorry, I can only give that limerick half a star.
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 10:06 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Hah! Gotta watch out for those "not right " ones.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 10:06 PM (bQ4nt)
I said that Blood Sausage would be a great name for a Metal band.
Turns out there was a British indie band by that name, with albums like:
Touching You in Ways That Don't Feel Comfortable
Happy Little Bullshit Boy
The Short and Painful Life of Blood Sausage
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 10:07 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025 10:07 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Frito Bandito at December 25, 2025 10:08 PM (LnZj/)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work
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Trade ya!
No, just kidding. You're *better off* there than here, trust me...
https://youtu.be/bs4F_VJwmS0
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 10:08 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 10:06 PM (lUFok)
It would have been even more bleak if he'd linked that stupid, insipid, Mariah Carey song. Bah!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2025 10:08 PM (uQesX)
if you are ever on NASA 1 about at 146 (ya gone to far) come back to the back door at the classic and I shall buy you a beer.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 10:08 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Blanco Basura
There's bleak, and then there's dire.
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 10:09 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Yes. They're just called rack of ribs.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 10:09 PM (bQ4nt)
Ain't gonna feed all those people prime rib!
Posted by: MkY at December 25, 2025 10:09 PM (q6tQZ)
Latest sunrise hasn't happened yet except for the very far north. That will start tomorrow about 63N latitude.
Dec. 31 for 50N, Jan. 5 for 40N, Jan 11 for 30N. Here for me at 34.75N, it will be Jan 7.
Everybody has already had earliest sunset.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 10:10 PM (w6EFb)
I take small comfort in knowing there are others out there doing the same.
I wish it got easier but it doesn't but I do know that feeling will soon pass.
God bless us, the forgotten ones.
Posted by: pawn at December 25, 2025 10:11 PM (EMg+d)
I was going to ask which one, but your description covers pretty much all of them.
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 10:11 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Frito Bandito at December 25, 2025 10:08 PM (LnZj/)
I grew up next to Castle Air Force Base... SAC base, B-52, and KC-135s. All of our neighbors were Air Force Officers...
Every Christmas Eve, Santa would make the rounds of the neighborhood, sitting up on the back of an Early Cherry Red Corvette. A Bunch of the Officers were involved.... local cops, would turn a blind eye...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 10:11 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Romeo13
Light up a cig while sitting in the middle of a pile of shredded wrapping paper. What's the worst that could happen?
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 10:11 PM (nhCoE)
if you are ever on NASA 1 about at 146 (ya gone to far) come back to the back door at the classic and I shall buy you a beer.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 10:08 PM (gbOdA)
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Problem is getting from A to B. Can't get there from here.
It occasionally comes to mind to take Her Majesty to dinner in Kemah, but I always manage to forget.
Did Tookie's survive the construction on 146?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 10:12 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 10:12 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 10:10 PM (w6EFb)
When you think about it, it's weird that the first day of summer is the longest day, but it still gets hotter even though the days start getting shorter, and the opposite for winter.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2025 10:13 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Yes. They're just called rack of ribs.
Posted by: olddog in mo
Do you prefer your lying ribs prone or prostrate?
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 10:13 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 09:46 PM (XSP3T)
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So were we. Still are, as far as we are concerned.
Posted by: Team USA mens basketball, Munich 1972 at December 25, 2025 09:50 PM (Wv0GD)
That one gave me a chuckle. Haven't read about that crime in a while.
Posted by: RickZ at December 25, 2025 10:13 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Gotdang I got old at December 25, 2025 10:14 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 25, 2025 10:14 PM (Do/tm)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 10:11 PM (lUFok)
She's a vocal showoff like Whitney Houston. Don't care for vocal showoffs.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2025 10:14 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: mindful webworker - false memories
Nowadays, Child Protective Services would apprehend the kids because Mama is exposing them to second-hand smoke.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Except, nowadays, Mama would be smoking reefer, along with the kids, and with CPS approval. Especially if she was a Mama of collar.
Posted by: mindful webworker - times they are a-changeling at December 25, 2025 10:15 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 25, 2025 10:06 PM (DiN/5)
Our church had a Midnight candle light Christmas service, and some of us kids were in the Choir? Yeah...
So family tradition was to go to church... would be like 1 AM when we got home... open ONE Gift, then no more gifts until AFTER Breakfast on Christmas... which came late as we'd all stayed up the night prior.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 10:15 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 25, 2025 10:15 PM (S/Y4j)
I never understood why people would take parenting advice from a Vulcan.
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 10:15 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 10:13 PM (nhCoE)
Those are basically the same thing, just with lesser or greater degrees of obeisance.
Posted by: Back to supine position at December 25, 2025 10:16 PM (TbWk/)
Fuck you, Benjamin Spock.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 25, 2025 10:14 PM (Do/tm)
___________
One of those people who inflicted massive damage to this country without being a politician.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 10:16 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: pawn at December 25, 2025 10:11 PM (EMg+d)
we are legion ...
Posted by: browndog circling at December 25, 2025 10:16 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Romeo13
Light up a cig while sitting in the middle of a pile of shredded wrapping paper. What's the worst that could happen?
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 10:11 PM (nhCoE)
LOL, we had a gas heater in the Den, where we opened presents.... so... yeah.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 10:16 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 10:11 PM (lUFok)
She's a vocal showoff like Whitney Houston. Don't care for vocal showoffs.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2025 10:14 PM (uQesX)
It sounds like yodeling.
And we already have the Swiss for that.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 25, 2025 10:17 PM (xzkgE)
It’s quiet. I’m kinda sad. Hope y’all are safe and warm and have a hand to hold and a person to snuggle.
Sometimes I think that would be really nice.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2025 09:56 PM
{{{nurse}}}
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 25, 2025 10:17 PM (9iRTe)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 10:08 PM (gbOdA)
I grew up near there - La Porte HS grad here!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 10:17 PM (XSP3T)
Posted by: pawn at December 25, 2025 10:11 PM (EMg+d)
we are legion ...
Posted by: browndog circling at December 25, 2025 10:16 PM (3sXRv)
I have not decided which is worser.
Being alone... or feeling alone in a crowd, and trying to pretend.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 10:17 PM (mP0Kj)
Heh. I watched the Grinch again last night. Boris Karloff was a treasure.
“You’re a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich… with arsenic sauce!”
The old cruel is the best cruel.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 25, 2025 10:17 PM (EXyHK)
A carrot
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 25, 2025 10:15 PM (S/Y4j)
Sez who ...
Posted by: Fmr Adm Richard Levine at December 25, 2025 10:17 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 10:15 PM (lUFok)
I dunno....
https://tinyurl.com/bdcpz35s
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2025 10:18 PM (uQesX)
A carrot
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 25, 2025 10:15 PM (S/Y4j)
Sez who ...
Posted by: Fmr Adm Richard Levine at December 25, 2025 10:17 PM (3sXRv)
Huge tracts of.... snow?
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 10:18 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 10:11 PM (nhCoE)
LOL, we had a gas heater in the Den, where we opened presents.... so... yeah.
Posted by: Romeo13
o_O
I hope the worst didn't happen.
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 10:18 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 10:17 PM (mP0Kj)
For me the latter.
But then I'm an extroverted introvert.
Posted by: browndog heading back inside at December 25, 2025 10:19 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Romeo13
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Light up a cig while sitting in the middle of a pile of shredded wrapping paper. What's the worst that could happen?
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 10:11 PM (nhCoE)
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LOL, we had a gas heater in the Den, where we opened presents.... so... yeah.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 10:16 PM (mP0Kj)
Like watching those old movies where there is smoking in a hospital room right near an oxygen tank. Makes you wonder. Somehow we're still here.
Posted by: RickZ at December 25, 2025 10:19 PM (gKDq2)
THat's some "inertia" and there's about a month delay. Mostly, except when there's not. In some regions, including the US, which I forget, the coldest month is indeed Dec. and the warmest is June, but for most of us in the mid latitudes, it's Jan and July.
And that gets even more complicated in other regions, I think.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 10:19 PM (w6EFb)
I have not decided which is worser.
Being alone... or feeling alone in a crowd, and trying to pretend.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 10:17 PM (mP0Kj)
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Being alone is infinitely better than feeling invisible in a gathering.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 10:20 PM (tgvbd)
'Posted by: Team USA mens basketball, Munich 1972 '
That burned my dad's ass for the rest of his life. He would have hated the USSR if stealing that game had been the only bad thing they ever did.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 10:20 PM (fd80v)
Bless You, sweet lady! A Cesar sounds perfect! Ii don’t smoke, but a cigarette does sound tempting.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2025 10:20 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 10:11 PM (nhCoE)
LOL, we had a gas heater in the Den, where we opened presents.... so... yeah.
Posted by: Romeo13
o_O
I hope the worst didn't happen.
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 10:18 PM (nhCoE)
Came close once... paper actually started to smolder...
Dad?... did not understand until a couple years ago... But Dad was a Sigma... caught it before it became a crises, while Mom was freakin.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 10:20 PM (mP0Kj)
One of the things I looked forward to at Christmas was after all the presents were opened my dad would put all the wrapping paper in the fireplace and watching it flare up. Apparently that’s considered a bad idea nowadays.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 25, 2025 10:21 PM (EXyHK)
Idk what *alone* looks like for all of you who are, but please know that you are seen and heard and loved. And prayed for.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at December 25, 2025 10:21 PM (nz1sK)
A carrot
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Snowballs.
Duh. . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 10:21 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 10:11 PM (nhCoE)
Have you met my mom? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 10:21 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 10:08 PM (gbOdA)
I will be in the area later this week - visiting my BFF and her family 😊♥️🎄
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 10:21 PM (XSP3T)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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I rate this as *true*
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 10:21 PM (rdVOm)
And that gets even more complicated in other regions, I think.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 10:19 PM (w6EFb)
Sure, I understand that. August is the hottest month here, and January the coldest. Starts warming in March/Apr and can get to 100 by late May.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2025 10:22 PM (uQesX)
You aren't forgotten or alone. You're part of very special community.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 10:22 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: RickZ at December 25, 2025 10:19 PM (gKDq2)
Yeah, and I STILL won't wear a Bicycle or Snow Ski Helmet... yet somehow I'm still around.
Remember riding in the back of pick up trucks? I do.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 10:22 PM (mP0Kj)
That burned my dad's ass for the rest of his life. He would have hated the USSR if stealing that game had been the only bad thing they ever did.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 10:20 PM (fd80v)
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Commies are going to commie anyway. My anger was directed to the spineless referees and IOC officials.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 10:22 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 10:20 PM (tgvbd)
Er....
Posted by: Posters who get no response to their comments at December 25, 2025 10:23 PM (uQesX)
'Posted by: Team USA mens basketball, Munich 1972 '
That burned my dad's ass for the rest of his life. He would have hated the USSR if stealing that game had been the only bad thing they ever did.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 10:20 PM (fd80v)
I may have this wrong, but I think not:
Doug Collins has it written in his will that his heirs cannot accept the silver medal.
And that precludes any other member of the team from accepting a silver medal as well.
The Intl. Olympic Committee said it's all or none, and Doug said go fish.
Good for him ...
Posted by: browndog remembers Shirley Babashoff at December 25, 2025 10:24 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 10:20 PM (fd80v)
"They" profited by it, but it was the officials who did it. Sorta like Ds, keep going until they get the desired outcome.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2025 10:25 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
It sounds like yodeling.
And we already have the Swiss for that.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
Mariah's shtick is whistle-register.
You know how toddlers can just shriiiieeeeeek!!! ?
Most of us forget how to do that. Mariah didn't.
It's locking out your vocal cords and whistling through them, sort of. That's why she can't sing actual words at those high pitches; she just makes orgasm noises.
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 10:25 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2025 10:25 PM (NwnyJ)
You do realize that sometimes no one responds because they can't think of anything to top it?
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 10:25 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
The IOC, FIA, and the France Family, are more crooked than the Dems, the CIA, The State Department, and the EU.
And that's saying something.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 10:25 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 10:22 PM (viF8m)
I tried to explain this to a friend. I just couldn't get that across, being the internet and all that. I even told her about MoMes.
Posted by: RickZ at December 25, 2025 10:26 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: GWB at December 25, 2025 10:26 PM (01WzZ)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 10:22 PM (mP0Kj)
Redneck pool!!!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2025 10:26 PM (uQesX)
This year I actually thought to take a couple of photos. I lug my phone every where, but I seldom take pictures. I guess I'm so old that taking photos requires having a camera, and mentally I fail to connect phone to camera, thus missing opportunities.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 25, 2025 10:26 PM (DK5Sh)
You aren't forgotten or alone. You're part of very special community.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 10:22 PM (viF8m)
Very special indeed. Has its own bus. A short one but a bus nonetheless.
Posted by: These windows taste great! at December 25, 2025 10:26 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2025 10:22 PM (uQesX)
At the eastern end of Lake Erie, August is a hotbox, and February is raw, cold and cruel.
Posted by: browndog remembers Shirley Babashoff at December 25, 2025 10:27 PM (3sXRv)
It’s even weirder when you consider that the very same day is also called midsummer.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 25, 2025 10:27 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at December 25, 2025 10:27 PM (9EO0O)
Posted by: Romeo13
I rode from Florida to South Carolina in the back of Dad's little Datsun. Had a bed made of a pool float and a beach towel tied across the truck bed for shade. Read a book and had fun. No one arrested Dad for bad parenting.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 10:27 PM (rghSL)
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 10:25 PM (nhCoE)
Plenty of guys trying to help her, too I'd wager.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2025 10:28 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 10:22 PM (mP0Kj)
I remember riding in the back of a station wagon.
When I was very young, I sat on my dad's lap while he drove a stick.
Posted by: RickZ at December 25, 2025 10:29 PM (gKDq2)
Our ancestors had even more faith. Before electricity they used candles.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 25, 2025 10:29 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 10:22 PM (mP0Kj)
Oh god yes ...
Packed 10 to a back bed ... up and down the mountain, or to and back from the put ins.
Posted by: browndog remembers Shirley Babashoff at December 25, 2025 10:29 PM (3sXRv)
Here, Greenville, SC area, the coldest for the 30 yr normals is about the 2 -3 week in Jan. and the hottest is about 3 -4th week in July. But that bounces around year to year of course. Pretty cold start to Dec, avg temp here with my station was just 40F, until this Christmas warm snap bumped it up to 42F.
40F is the lowest weekly average during that Jan coldest period.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 10:29 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 25, 2025 10:30 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 10:25 PM (lUFok)
Wait. You're saying everyone else is a Bottom???
Posted by: Posters who get no response to their comments at December 25, 2025 10:30 PM (uQesX)
https://tinyurl.com/AdventCalendarBleakMidwinter
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 10:30 PM (XSP3T)
Posted by: Hassen Ben Sober at December 25, 2025 10:32 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 25, 2025 10:33 PM (MxHeL)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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I rate this as *true*
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 10:21 PM (rdVOm)
I spend most of my life around large crowds, or alone. I don't exactly blend in the background, but If I have to be in a crowded room with absolutely nothing in common with anybody there, like brain surgeons, lawyers, real estate people, etc. Fuck it, I would rather be alone and make my own frigging party.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 10:33 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Romeo13
Yup. And it was a Ranchero, so the bed wasn't even that deep. Surprised I never bounced out when I got one of the two prime seats on the wheel wells.
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 10:33 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 10:33 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 25, 2025 10:34 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 25, 2025 10:34 PM (31p00)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 10:34 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 10:30 PM (XSP3T)
Your own photos?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2025 10:35 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 25, 2025 10:35 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 10:22 PM (mP0Kj)
Oh god yes ...
Packed 10 to a back bed ... up and down the mountain, or to and back from the put ins.
Posted by: browndog remembers Shirley Babashoff at December 25, 2025 10:29 PM (3sXRv)
We still do that around here, but I try to keep the speed down to avoid freaking out the California transplants. I have to believe that most people look on fondly.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 10:35 PM (QcxL/)
There are three main season definitions. The one there is called solar seasons. The equinoxes and solstice define the middle of the seasons. There, the cross-quarter points define the start and end of the seasons.
With astronomical, they define the start. That is the one we most commonly use.
Then there's meteorological seasons, which align with calendar months, which works out pretty well at least for the typical weather patterns for us in the mid latitudes.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 10:35 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Hassen Ben Sober at December 25, 2025 10:32 PM (oftw2)
Where I grew up, it seemed every day was a tule fog day in January.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2025 10:37 PM (uQesX)
A fine end to Christmas!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 10:37 PM (2WIwB)
https://tinyurl.com/AdventCalendarBleakMidwinter
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn.
Lovely sound and images, Teresa, thanks.
Posted by: Big Penguin Lackey at December 25, 2025 10:37 PM (oftw2)
https://tinyurl.com/ms2nheve
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 25, 2025 10:38 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 10:33 PM (QMAsf)
Merry Christmas, Doof. Thanks for all the ONTs.
Thanks especially for the Rush. Little2 got a 2112 t-shirt, and it got some of the most glee of the morning, and it made little1 a bit jealous.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 10:39 PM (QcxL/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 25, 2025 10:40 PM (bss/y)
The next cross-quarter date is Feb. 3, and the start of Spring per that solar seasonal definition.
In terms of length of daylight, that's a pretty good marker for when the change in daylight length starts getting noticeable.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 10:40 PM (w6EFb)
So what if no one responds to what you post here.
If someone wants affirmation through what they post here, it's sad.
Comment what you want.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 10:40 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 10:40 PM (2WIwB)
A carrot
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Snowballs.
Duh. . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 10:21 PM (cYBz/)
Depending on the size, you might need a Yule log instead of a carrot. Big enough, and you get a Snow Paulo.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 25, 2025 10:40 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 25, 2025 10:40 PM (EXyHK)
This Trump Dude's power is awesome!!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 10:02 PM (cYBz/)
___________________________
You joke about that, but I can assure you that if this happened when I was in school, and I was a girl, I would have been handing out strategically placed elbows, fists and kicks to any boy stupid enough to want to share the floor with me. I might have been shown the door eventually, but Fred the pretend woman would have been walking funny for the foreseeable future. And, considering the crowd I used to hang out with, I wouldn't have been the only one.
Posted by: Orson at December 25, 2025 10:40 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 10:33 PM (QMAsf)
***Spock eyebrow***
You can't blame it on hockey interfering with your duties 'cause there twern't none ...
Posted by: browndog remembers Shirley Babashoff at December 25, 2025 10:42 PM (3sXRv)
After all those Monday night mixups... *any* ONT is better than *no* ONT!
LMAO.
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 10:42 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 10:42 PM (xTuYU)
This is a special place with exceptional people.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 10:43 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 10:30 PM (XSP3T)
Your own photos?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2025 10:35 PM (uQesX)
Nope - just pics I liked that I pulled off of the internet
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 10:43 PM (XSP3T)
David Bernstein
@ProfDBernstein
If ”free Palestine“ propagandists want to claim Jesus as Palestinian, they are welcome to him, but they need to also claim Judas, the Sanhedrin, the mob that chose Barabas over Jesus, and all the other Judean actors whom Christians have laid the Deicide on, leading to centuries of violemce against Jews. “The Palestinians killed Jesus?”
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 25, 2025 10:44 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Blanco Basura
Huh. I always figured my comments were usually too oblique, too weird, to engender replies. I think I'll adopt your idea instead. heh
Posted by: mindful webworker - no replies? buffs nails at December 25, 2025 10:44 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 10:44 PM (rghSL)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 25, 2025 10:45 PM (bss/y)
_-_
Satisfaction guaranteed or double your money back.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 25, 2025 10:45 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 10:39 PM (QcxL/)
That's awesome!
Tonight's Rush is for ultimate nerd fans. Not exactly a toe tapping, sing along kind of song.
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 10:45 PM (QMAsf)
A carrot
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Snowballs.
Duh. . . .
Posted by: Tonypete
Depending on the size, you might need a Yule log instead of a carrot. Big enough, and you get a Snow Paulo.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
The ladies often freeze for a moment when they see it.....
Posted by: Snow Paolo at December 25, 2025 10:45 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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There ya go!
Sometimes it's preferable to not be noticed, and it's good when that's what you want... I learned to 'blend in' long time ago. Before the phrase "gray man" was invented. Always had that "girl next door" look anyhow, so it was pretty easy.
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 10:47 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 25, 2025 10:47 PM (bss/y)
The remarkable thing about social gatherings to me is that instantly everyone knows everyone else and form tight little closed groups having a great time while I wander around like a vagrant atom, unable even to introduce myself to anyone.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 10:47 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 10:43 PM (viF8m)
And Garrett.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 10:47 PM (QcxL/)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 10:40 PM (2WIwB)
Appreciate the kind words.
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 10:48 PM (QMAsf)
The remarkable thing about social gatherings to me is that instantly everyone knows everyone else and form tight little closed groups having a great time while I wander around like a vagrant atom, unable even to introduce myself to anyone.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 10:47 PM (tgvbd)
I usually try to find the 4 legged types when I find myself in that position.
Posted by: browndog remembers Shirley Babashoff at December 25, 2025 10:49 PM (3sXRv)
Always an interesting band. Despite their circumstances, they proved they were not a fly by night operation.
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 10:49 PM (lUFok)
I usually try to find the 4 legged types when I find myself in that position.
Posted by: browndog remembers Shirley Babashoff at December 25, 2025 10:49 PM (3sXRv)
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True. They're the only ones who are happy to have a conversation with me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 10:50 PM (tgvbd)
After all those Monday night mixups... *any* ONT is better than *no* ONT!
LMAO.
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 10:42 PM (rdVOm)
Howdy JQ!
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 10:50 PM (QMAsf)
Hasn't abated.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 25, 2025 10:50 PM (0yLoC)
Tonight's Rush is for ultimate nerd fans. Not exactly a toe tapping, sing along kind of song.
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 10:45 PM (QMAsf)
That is little2's favorite Rush sing, he proclaimed, after recently rocking his face off in the car.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 10:51 PM (QcxL/)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 10:43 PM (viF8m)
And Garrett.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 10:47 PM (QcxL/)
Haha!
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 10:51 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 10:49 PM (lUFok)
Always the working men, they believed that you don't get something for nothing.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 10:53 PM (QcxL/)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 10:53 PM (2Ez/1)
https://shorturl.at/wmmnV
"Goin' Out Tonight"
Posted by: browndog remembers Shirley Babashoff at December 25, 2025 10:54 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: American Dollars, Even at December 25, 2025 10:55 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 10:49 PM (lUFok)
Always the working men, they believed that you don't get something for nothing.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 10:53 PM (QcxL/)
They had such rhythm. It was... mystic.
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 10:56 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: raimondo at December 25, 2025 10:56 PM (TugnC)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 10:47 PM (QcxL/)
Haha!
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 10:51 PM (QMAsf)
I love goofing on Garrett, because he takes it like a pro, a rare trait. Also a funny gus. He is extremely appreciated, and i hope to one day raise my glass to him in person.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 10:57 PM (QcxL/)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 10:58 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Variations on the theme, then.
https://youtu.be/2Bl9Kx3uCrg
https://youtu.be/ZYZH9t-4W4Y
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 10:58 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: raimondo at December 25, 2025 10:58 PM (TugnC)
https://tinyurl.com/AdventCalendarDay25
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 10:59 PM (XSP3T)
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 10:45 PM (QMAsf)
I haven't listened to that one in a long time.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 10:59 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 11:02 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 10:56 PM (rdVOm)
I know what you're doing, all that you've been doing wrong.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 11:04 PM (QcxL/)
Posted by: Piper at December 25, 2025 11:04 PM (hftzA)
If only raindommo and cloggendrains could find each other and leave the rest of us alone.
Posted by: mindful webworker - this comment has not been approved by the Hayes committee at December 25, 2025 11:05 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Esq - artist at December 25, 2025 11:05 PM (lUFok)
You do realize that sometimes no one responds because they can't think of anything to top it?
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310
Would not be surprised if 80%+ get no response.
If not the threads balloon geometrically.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 11:05 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: PabloD at December 25, 2025 11:06 PM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2025 11:06 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 11:06 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Piper
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Yes, mostly!
Yours started wonderfully, iirc... hope it stayed great!
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 11:07 PM (rdVOm)
If you ever try to pin this on me I will deny it.
He's one of the best.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 11:07 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 11:06 PM (lUFok)
Your hash deserves a bizarre and randomly apparitioning sock.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 25, 2025 11:07 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 11:08 PM (rdVOm)
They were just making memories. Playing closer to the heart and all that.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 11:08 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: PabloD at December 25, 2025 11:06 PM (Epuwl)
We had way too much prime rib, and I surprisingly exercised an alien sense of moderation. I'm now sipping a bourbon, contemplating pecan pie.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 11:08 PM (QcxL/)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 25, 2025 11:08 PM (mH6SG)
I plan to spend Boxing Day in a near coma (I like to say comatoast vs comatose) vs boxing anyone.
I just remembered a black/white no audio (Civil War Era) video of me, about 6yrs old,on Christmas morning, highjacking my younger brother's pedal fire truck. We both had chickenpox and apparently I was the fittest. I was wearing a complete red cowgirl outfit with hat, six shooter, holster & boots at the time. That was probably a fun Christmas for all involved!
Chickenpox 3wks isolation with our sons was possibly the worst part of being a mother. Nightmares were made of this. One son, with curly blond hair wore his hair like Pebbles Flinstone for a week. The pediatrician said the worst case he'd ever seen...a measles-like rash that blistered. He was not itchy, he was in pain, and I was along with him. I put him in my home pediatric ICU and washed his sheets daily and changed his pillowcase twice a day. He wore socks on his hands to prevent infections from scratching, and hung out in loose pj's.He looked pitiful.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 25, 2025 11:09 PM (WONhk)
He's one of the best.
Posted by: JackStraw
You're right, but it's the Bedazzling and glitter that's so off-putting.
Posted by: Straight Arrow at December 25, 2025 11:09 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Piper at December 25, 2025 11:04 PM (hftzA)
My parents were well enough to spend Christmas with us. That was a blessing. We had a low key, enjoyable day.
You had a nice Christmas surprise visitor, I recall. Hope it was a Merry Christmas.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 11:10 PM (rghSL)
Posted by: Piper
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Yes, mostly!
Yours started wonderfully, iirc... hope it stayed great!
Posted
It did and was. Unfortunately she has to go home tomorrow for work, but we are going to plan a trip where she can stay longer.
Posted by: Piper at December 25, 2025 11:10 PM (hftzA)
I’m supposed to be up early and drive down to Cleveland for a luncheon with my classmates.
Looks like Lake Effect snows all the way … so I might choose life and limb over libations, and stay put.
Enjoy the rest of Christmas night folks 🎄
Posted by: browndog stuffed but looking for more at December 25, 2025 11:10 PM (TTAGa)
They were just making memories. Playing closer to the heart and all that.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 11:08 PM (lUFok)
In the spirit of the radio, as if they were of a body electric.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 11:11 PM (QcxL/)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Sing us a song!!!
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 11:08 PM (rdVOm)
Now paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife
its not that he's lazy, he just isn't crazy
and don't want to be bitched at for life
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 11:11 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 11:13 PM (w6EFb)
Lessons for all of us in that. Incorporate your grand designs into your mission and you too can hit the big money.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 11:14 PM (lUFok)
Lessons for all of us in that. Incorporate your grand designs into your mission and you too can hit the big money.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 11:14 PM (lUFok)
*bows*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 11:14 PM (QcxL/)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2025 11:14 PM (XV/Pl)
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*winks*
Posted by: The Manager at December 25, 2025 11:15 PM (nWPIJ)
You had a nice Christmas surprise visitor, I recall. Hope it was a Merry Christmas.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 11:10 PM (rghSL
It really was. I need to get everyone closer.
Posted by: Piper at December 25, 2025 11:16 PM (TBDwe)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 11:16 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 11:11 PM (QcxL/)
Spirit of the radio. A fine song ruined with a shit reggae sounding middle part. I'll never forgive them for that. I refuse to play that part of the song. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 11:17 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, First of his name at December 25, 2025 11:17 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 11:17 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 09:48 PM (npFr7)
But there are at North Pole, Alaska, though. Heh. The Santa Claus House tourist trap had fallen on hard times the last time I was there. Dunno if it's been fixed up any since.
Just rolled in from dinner with the fam a little while ago. Sitting here with a good stiff Irish coffee (Tullamore Dew, half-and-half, whipped cream... considering adding some brown sugar and telling the diabetes to go fuck itself for the evening), and being pleased I'm in from the 0F/-18 C outside.
Happy Merry to all, unless some drive-by reader is of the type to get offended by that, in which case go fuck yourself the same as the diabetes.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 25, 2025 11:18 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2025 11:18 PM (uQesX)
Is now very quiet and relaxful after long day of festivations.
Grandfathers are drink own wine, some brandy, while cheat at cards. Everyone cheat, so OK.
Grandmothers are drink small brandy with raisins, discuss with many speculations why was not someone today here.
The Youngs are return to frolickings, with kind but stern warnings of fire hazards of hay.
Posted by: Official Novdu Informations at December 25, 2025 11:18 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 11:17 PM (snZF9)
lol, now that you mention it, I won't be able to unhear it.
Please don't ruin any more for me.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 11:19 PM (QcxL/)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 11:19 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 11:08 PM (rdVOm)
...You're a singer.
Do me a wrong, you're a bringer of evil.
Posted by: Ronnie James at December 25, 2025 11:20 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 11:21 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 11:21 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 11:16 PM (nWPIJ)
He's gonna get that silly shit in his mustache. And we all know that after dealing with the world's population of children, he'd need an IV drip of navy strength gin.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 25, 2025 11:21 PM (xzkgE)
Santa loves to sail. True story.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 11:21 PM (viF8m)
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Mrs. Claus could sweat my halyard any day of the week.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 11:23 PM (nWPIJ)
222
Uh, no, one should not drink liquid nitrogen:
https://is.gd/OXyNzO
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 11:13 PM (w6EFb)
They’re worse than the Japanese. Everyone is sitting around laughing while that idiot chef kills some guy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 11:23 PM (xTuYU)
Posted by: Piper at December 25, 2025 11:04 PM (hftzA
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I enjoyed dinner and the with my brother's family. Left with love and leftovers. And tomorrow, have to muddle through somehow...
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 25, 2025 11:24 PM (Bs2Ft)
We grilled today. Burgers, hot dogs and sausages.
Everyone was on board with breaking with the usual big meal.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 11:24 PM (3ek7K)
TANKER #3 Bella 1 seized
Registry: UNKNOWN (was Panama until Oct (2024)
Insurance: None identified since the end of 2021
Classification: Was Lloyds up to July 2025
318,518 deadweight tons
1,092 feet
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Finally a reason for waiting to board the Bella.
It is a big ship and they had to fly in someone qualified to pilot it. It's a thousand feet long and twenty stories tall. (that's what they are saying)
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Jack Straw@JackStr42679640 . 29m
PENTAGON SPECIAL OPS TO 'TAKE CONTROL' OF FLEEING VENEZUELAN OIL TANKER
Maritime Special Response Team will 'FAST-ROPE Bella 1' — quotes from WSJ, MSRT footage from Global_Conflict_65
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OK, is it fess up time or has someone copped your nic?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 11:24 PM (9ppvE)
Posted by: Cicero
FUN FACT
In Hungary in the 90s, bookkeeping could be done in any language, as long as you kept accurate books.
I always had one in Hungarian, but if the Tax Authority had ever questioned me, I had a set in Mayan Glyphs.
Posted by: Glory Days of Imklos at December 25, 2025 11:25 PM (f/3mU)
We've made some progress in rolling back the nanny state since the Rise of Trump, but we still have a long way to go.
https://tinyurl.com/4a7nkhkv
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 25, 2025 11:25 PM (IG3/x)
Miklos, you speak Klingon?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 11:26 PM (X/1X8)
Posted by: Mr. Kringle at December 25, 2025 11:26 PM (oftw2)
Search Assist
The Coast Guard uses a technique called fast-roping, where troops descend a thick rope from a helicopter to board a ship quickly. This method allows multiple personnel to deploy simultaneously, making it efficient for operations like seizing a tanker at sea
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 11:26 PM (9ppvE)
Everyone was on board with breaking with the usual big meal.
Posted by: four seasons
We had snacks and appetizers. It was nice to not cook a huge meal.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 11:27 PM (rghSL)
I saw that the idea of reviving letters of marque and reprisal has been floated recently.
As I recall, most nations signed off on a treaty banning them back in the 19th Century, but the United States was not one of them.
Imagine what a supertanker plus a cargo of crude oil would fetch at a prize court. I'm thinking there'd be no shortage of volunteers.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 25, 2025 11:28 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Piper
Yes, even after regretfully declining Miley's invite for Prime Rib.
I am/will/do regret this
Posted by: Imklos makes Poor Life Choices again at December 25, 2025 11:28 PM (f/3mU)
Boxing Day. Sydney - Hobart race.
https://rolexsydneyhobart.com
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 11:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Currently unbanned Imklos at December 25, 2025 11:30 PM (f/3mU)
I always had one in Hungarian, but if the Tax Authority had ever questioned me, I had a set in Mayan Glyphs.
Posted by: Glory Days of Imklos at December 25, 2025 11:25 PM (f/3mU)
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It must be handy to have a set of books that takes the end of the world into account.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 11:31 PM (nWPIJ)
youtube.com/watch?v=9nci2FgL_fI
Posted by: gp at December 25, 2025 11:31 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 11:16 PM (nWPIJ)
It's the correct Myer's to egg nog ratio, just not mixed.
Posted by: Frito Bandito at December 25, 2025 11:33 PM (LnZj/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 11:33 PM (WGeqj)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 10:35 PM (w6EFb)
I recently learned of the traditional English Quarter Days, which were used in Medieval times to denote what we would call fiscal quarters. All contracts, especially concerning agriculture, started and ended on these days, and each marks 1/4 of the year.
The traditional dates were March 25, June 24, Sept 29, and Dec 25, and were named Lady Day, Midsummer Day, Michaelmas, and Christmas Day.
Each was treated as a great feast day.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 11:34 PM (xTuYU)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 25, 2025 11:36 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Cicero
Mainly I figured that tax auditors would have trouble with a vigesimal system.
Posted by: Honest Imklos at December 25, 2025 11:36 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 11:17 PM (snZF9)
lol, now that you mention it, I won't be able to unhear it.
Please don't ruin any more for me.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 11:19 PM (QcxL/)
Sigh..I know right? Imagine being a guitar player, and you have been playing that frigging song for 45 frigging years and every time you get to that part the pear of anquish appears, you put the pick down, and you say you miserable motherfuckers. 45 years I have refused to play that part.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 11:36 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Merry Christmas, kind sir. Please, you are warm and dry and safe? Sounds like it is your turn for the foul weather.
Raining all day here. Getting cold tonight. Snow level down to 1000 ft.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2025 11:37 PM (XwqDD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 11:38 PM (vL0rw)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 25, 2025 11:28 PM (IG3/x)
The crude on the first tanker which was seized, which is about to reach the offshore Louisiana holding area, is valued at about $80 million. That’s just the cargo , doesn’t include the ship. (And that’s why you do NOT sink an oil tanker, you capture it!)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 11:41 PM (xTuYU)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 11:41 PM (vL0rw)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 11:41 PM (vL0rw)
Took 4 inches of water off the pool here in Central Valley Calif.... my big rain gauge as there is no runoff into the pool... so this is just rain.
Still hearing big gusts of wind going down the Valley tonight... but heck, saw the sun for the first time in 6 weeks today as a bank of clouds blew through.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 11:44 PM (mP0Kj)
Had such a good time with hub, and his son called, and then I had to check dad's place & put yard waste cans to the curb for tomorrow pick up.
Dark and rainy by the time I got home! No bueno for stove pipe cleanout. Meh. Plugged in a space heater-- stove and pipe will wait until daylight.
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 11:45 PM (rdVOm)
With a lasso, a real big one, and a cowboy with a really good arm.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 11:47 PM (snZF9)
Another poll watcher under oath:
“You must know in your heart that this election was fraudulent.”
U.S. military ballots on November 3, 2020:
“I witnessed military ballots being duplicated. I just thought it was strange that only Biden’s name was selected—no down-ballot. And I watched multiples. I don’t know how many I watched, and not one of them was for Trump. I thought that was really strange, especially being military.”
2020 was not an election; it was a treasonous conspiracy.
https://tinyurl.com/mrxdetw6
Read that Bondi's got about 10 days before the statute of limitations run out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 11:47 PM (9ppvE)
Be careful with the space heater -- no flammable objects near it
Of course you know, JQ, you're no dummy.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 11:49 PM (X/1X8)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 11:51 PM (rdVOm)
Amazing how many times us conspiracy theorists have been right.
It's almost like we weren't guessing.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 11:51 PM (viF8m)
I like those oil filled heaters. Quiet usually safe.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 11:51 PM (X/1X8)
Posted by: scampydog at December 25, 2025 11:52 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 11:53 PM (X/1X8)
I hope your Christmas went well. Mine did, for a wonder. Linda knew what she was getting (coffee and a jewelry box), because she'd asked for them. She also pointed me to a chain and a cat charm on eBay that she would like, both reasonably priced.
She gave me a large wooden box, like a cigar box I guess, large enough for me to store my various tobaccos; a little vial of men's cologne; and, get this, an air purifier/filter. "Tobacco-adjacent," she said. I would like to use it, but I hope it's not too noisy.
Anyway, I hope you all had a good Christmas and will be able to enjoy the rest of what everybody calls "the holidays."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 11:54 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 11:47 PM (9ppvE)
The case is doubtless sitting on her desk. Like the Epstein files were.
Posted by: she work hard for the money, so hard for the money at December 25, 2025 11:54 PM (mrP+j)
Japan's Cabinet just approved a record defense budget exceeding 9 trillion yen ($58 billion) for fiscal 2026, up 9.4% from last year.
The focus: strike-back capability, cruise missiles, and unmanned drones to counter China.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said in November that Japan's military could get involved if China takes action against Taiwan.
Beijing didn't take that well.
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hahahahahahaha
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 11:57 PM (9ppvE)
Lady Day, March 25, was the start of the new calendar year in Britain until the adopted the New Style calendar in 1752 (wouldn't call it Gregorian, because Catholic).
By that time, the Gregorian had jumped 11 days ahead, and after Sept 2, they jumped to Sept 14, and then started the new year on Jan 1 thereafter. Thus 1752 had little less than 9 months.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 11:57 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 11:58 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 11:51 PM (rdVOm)
We used to burn 3 cords of wood a winter to heat the house.... fire every single night.
Now? We can't even HAVE a wood fire. Thanks Calif.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 11:58 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: scampydog at December 26, 2025 12:02 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2025 12:03 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 11:36 PM (snZF9)
It is almost as if it echoes with the sound of salesmen. Of salesmen!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 12:03 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: PabloD at December 26, 2025 12:03 AM (Epuwl)
Posted by: ... at December 26, 2025 12:04 AM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Romeo13
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Dang. How sad. I lived in CA for a bit less than a year, '89-'90. Could not wait to leave, even back then!
Sorry, Romeo13. I hope you can escape before the state implodes.
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 12:04 AM (rdVOm)
FIRE IN THE HOUSE
It doesn't receive enough gas (there's a blockage somewhere) to burn up to it's full potential but it makes a difference.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 12:06 AM (9ppvE)
Posted by: scampydog
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You're welcome! You betcher sweet bippy I gots one for myself...LOL.
Hope you had a great day.
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 12:07 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 12:04 AM (rdVOm)
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Implode? In 25 years CA is going to be the bestest state evah!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 26, 2025 12:09 AM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 11:41 PM (xTuYU)
=========
AAaaaargh!
Posted by: Dread Pirate mrp at December 26, 2025 12:10 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Cicero
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Uh huh. I won't be around in 25 years, so will just take your word for it. Meanwhile... lotsa luck!
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 12:12 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 12:03 AM (dK+Kv)
Oh, you don't get something for nothing
Posted by: Fen at December 26, 2025 12:13 AM (id160)
Posted by: free tibet at December 26, 2025 12:14 AM (iNp3L)
Not as long as this one has been going on.
It's almost like some who claim to hate the media still form their beliefs around what the media says.
You did know Brennan is already trying fight off an indictment in Florida, right?
https://tinyurl.com/5tt9ejk7
Just because the media you claim to hate isn't reporting it doesn't mean it isn't happening.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 12:16 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Soothsayer
Remember those lawn darts you borrowed?
I think I need 'em back
I hope you attached various fireworks to them.
If I don't see burn marks, I will be disspoint
Posted by: 70s kid Imklos at December 26, 2025 12:17 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: mrp at December 26, 2025 12:17 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Fen
You gotta have something
If you wanna be with me
Posted by: Imklos in best Billy Preston style at December 26, 2025 12:19 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 12:03 AM (dK+Kv)
My default line over the years has been echos with the sound of dickheads.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 12:20 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: mrp
We are use dried cow dung for such purpose
but NO EAT COW
Posted by: H1-B Sajeet at December 26, 2025 12:20 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: mrp
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Beef tenderloin here this evening. BiL nailed it with the cooking - fork only for cutting. Ate too much, but damn...
Posted by: scampydog at December 26, 2025 12:23 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 12:23 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Soothsayer
My best friend and I had roman candle wand wars
https://tinyurl.com/bdcusttm
I'm astonished we survived high school
Posted by: Fen at December 26, 2025 12:24 AM (id160)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 12:25 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2025 12:26 AM (pkeXY)
Haven't heard any more from BIL, what decided to go back to his *abandoned* 5th wheel trailer for something he left behind. (Probably will find it *gone* after 2 weeks in a state rest area!) He probably won't arrive there until tomorrow or next day-- I don't believe he drives at all when it's dark out. The place is about 400 miles from here, so probably BIL won't come here thinking to
Today, I get bs from my own lil bro-- who informs me that he's invited "a friend" (complete stranger to me) to go steelhead fishing this Spring-- and of course plans for them to stay at our *deceased* Dad's house. I told him no. He argued, says it's his house too and he'll do whatever he wants there. Uh, no-- it's part of an estate, I am representative, and it hasn't been settled yet. Too bad for him, that his key won't work LOL.
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 12:26 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
*sends 144 tiny paper umbrellas*
*good for beverages or lighting dried out former Christmas trees*
*a former decorative tree, put in a barrel, will shoot off like a rocket*
Posted by: Hints from Heloise and Imklos at December 26, 2025 12:29 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 12:33 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 26, 2025 12:33 AM (rghSL)
If you wanna be with me
Posted by: Imklos in best Billy Preston style at December 26, 2025 12:19 AM (f/3mU)
Snow Dog, when the walls fell
(I know, so sue me)
Posted by: Fen at December 26, 2025 12:33 AM (id160)
Posted by: JQ
It wasn't until about a month ago that I had a key to my parents' (now my) house. Doors were always locked from the inside, or leave and the garage door closes.
Low crime area
After decades
What is this key for? Oh, doors and stuff.
Posted by: Imklos has All-Access Pass at December 26, 2025 12:36 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: lurker at December 26, 2025 12:36 AM (kMPDO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2025 12:37 AM (bss/y)
Always.
We also used to play a game we called Dart Tag. Which was tag. Played with Darts.
Good times.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2025 12:37 AM (grNgC)
But I'm not responsible for him. He's got to do what he's got to do. :shrug:
Lil bro has issues too, and again-- I'm not responsible for his BS. He also is a grown man and needs to sort his sh!t.
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 12:37 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: lurker at December 26, 2025 12:36 AM (kMPDO)
Ask and you shall receive. GINGER AI slop...
https://tinyurl.com/yc28nk5m
Posted by: Fen at December 26, 2025 12:39 AM (id160)
Posted by: ImklosBot v. 20005.87.986.02 at December 26, 2025 12:40 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 12:41 AM (9ppvE)
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 12:26 AM (rdVOm)
What has to be settled with the house?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 12:42 AM (snZF9)
I've done a lot of things. Learned (at least partly!) some trade-stuff as well as retail and food/bar service.
"Specialization is for insects!"
-- (I forgot who) Heinlein?
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 12:43 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: lurker at December 26, 2025 12:36 AM (kMPDO)
Ask and you shall receive. GINGER AI slop...
Posted by: Fen at December 26, 2025 12:39 AM (id160)
Ever see any of those AI Elvis in different movies slop?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 26, 2025 12:43 AM (uQesX)
Christmas babe.
http://alturl.com/4uidq
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 12:23 AM (dK+Kv)
Thanks for reposting, I wanted to see who that was.
Natalia Tihomirova is the name on the pic you posted.
There is also a fake, I think, where Scarlett Johannsen is stuck on the body.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2025 12:43 AM (bss/y)
Not as long as this one has been going on.
It's almost like some who claim to hate the media still form their beliefs around what the media says.
You did know Brennan is already trying fight off an indictment in Florida, right?
https://tinyurl.com/5tt9ejk7
Just because the media you claim to hate isn't reporting it doesn't mean it isn't happening.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 12:16 AM
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Yes, Brennan accuses Republicans of judge shopping. Golly, I sure hope the Democrats don't get that idea.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 26, 2025 12:43 AM (0pev9)
Christmas babe.
http://alturl.com/4uidq
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 12:23 AM (dK+Kv)
That is a superior woman. I actually saved that link, and I don't normally do that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 12:44 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 26, 2025 12:45 AM (R2vJa)
Posted by: lurker at December 26, 2025 12:46 AM (kMPDO)
Posted by: Neue Deutsche Eco-CuisineArt at December 26, 2025 12:46 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Rockem Sockem Imklos at December 26, 2025 12:48 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Berserker
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The house is not empty, or cleaned up for sale. There are a couple of other loose ends that I'm working on, before the estate can be "closed"
Meanwhile, lil bro keeps using it as a free hotel-- just goes there to fk off & party once or twice a year.
Every damned time I start working on the place, some sh@t happens to stop or slow me down! It's a frigging curse!
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 12:48 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2025 12:48 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Soothsayer
My best friend and I had roman candle wand wars
https://tinyurl.com/bdcusttm
I'm astonished we survived high school
Posted by: Fen at December 26, 2025 12:24 AM (id160)
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Didja notice that the spectator on the sidelines was telling the Warriors, " You have to get closer."
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 26, 2025 12:49 AM (wWENI)
Posted by: JQ
You sound like a nice lady with some problems.
Maybe we can help
Posted by: Tony 'Imklos" Soprano at December 26, 2025 12:52 AM (f/3mU)
The Centuries, seized on December 20, 2025. Approximately 1.8 million barrels of Merey crude oil.
Bella 1 tanker, seized on December 25, 2025, is a Panamanian-flagged vessel that was under U.S. sanctions since 2024. Bella 1 was not carrying any cargo at the time of interception.
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That's odd. Why was it leaving Venezuela with no cargo?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 12:54 AM (9ppvE)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Five wheels?
That's yer problem right there
Posted by: Casey Jones at December 26, 2025 12:54 AM (f/3mU)
We also used to play a game we called Dart Tag. Which was tag. Played with Darts.
Good times.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2025 12:37 AM
Men being men. Also, sometimes, dying younger.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 26, 2025 12:54 AM (/TzNd)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 26, 2025 12:56 AM (/TzNd)
The DOJ is building a conspiracy case and doing it in Florida. Been going since Trump got in office.
No guarantees of wins but I'll take Florida over DC for any trial.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 12:57 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 12:57 AM (viF8m)
Absolutely.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 12:59 AM (snZF9)
Got a "market assessment" when Dad died-- about 300k.
I can't just transfer & put in the 3 heirs' names or it'll never get sold because lil bro (ignorant as fk) says he won't accept less than 700k sale. This is podunk, not Big City!
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 01:02 AM (rdVOm)
The AI slop is getting better at an astounding rate, though.
I'm betting on two years before it's not recognizable as such other than by forensic methods.
It reminds me of the situation with digital typography, and digital photography, and digital sound recording... they were all kinda crappy, until suddenly they weren't.
Good night all, and I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 26, 2025 01:03 AM (IG3/x)
I want them to look at their assets and see a stone dungeon.
They will never have remorse but they can be forced to pay the fiddler. I want that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 01:03 AM (9ppvE)
The judge Brennan's lawyer is objecting to is Eileen Cannon. The judge that shut Jack Smith down.
Democrats aren't in Kansas anymore.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 01:07 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: JM
My ass
Rub some dirt on it and walk it off.
What are you, a girl?
The application of hot iron is a more New Age Holistic treatment.
Posted by: 70s kid Imklos , with penny rocket duelling scars to prove it at December 26, 2025 01:07 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 01:07 AM (9ppvE)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 26, 2025 01:08 AM (0nHVk)
I'm betting on two years before it's not recognizable as such other than by forensic methods.
>>>
As long as you're human, you'll be able to tell it on sight, because it's slop.
Posted by: lurker at December 26, 2025 01:08 AM (kMPDO)
Posted by: Imlos in best H. R. Puffenstuff Clinton voice at December 26, 2025 01:09 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Yes. Got to get a bunch of sh@t out of there, (and take the loss due to problems that market assessment didn't know about!) and face the wrath of bro and sis.
This is gonna be great! And *yours truly* get to do ALL OF THE FKING WORK.
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 01:11 AM (rdVOm)
creme de cacao and something else (I can't remember). It's two liquors, the hitter is on the bottom and it's served in a straight up apéritif glass.
You drink it in one shot, the bottom liquor goes down first then the top follows and smooths it off.
It was fun.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 01:14 AM (9ppvE)
So-- sell the house. Pay myself back (20k and counting!) and then split the remainder.
You all will be able to hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth from across the country!
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 01:18 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
Sometimes it is worth it to pay a lawyer a few thousand dollars. Maybe 2-3k. There are semi-retired lawyers who will catch the flack, and be as the Wise Guys call them a "mouthpiece".
Posted by: Imklos is not an Attorney in your State, Province, or Autonomous Republic at December 26, 2025 01:19 AM (f/3mU)
Tell them they should be happy you aren't billing them for your time.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2025 01:19 AM (grNgC)
Won't you stand up and scream
Cause there's thing going on you don't know
https://tinyurl.com/y6cb733x
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 01:23 AM (viF8m)
All your tanker are belong to us.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 26, 2025 01:24 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: garrett
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Dad's Will states that I am allowed to charge. Thinking I might just do it! They're gonna be p!ssed anyway-- should I not be compensated, at least for all the stress?
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 01:25 AM (rdVOm)
If market assessment doesn't know about the problems, let it ride. The realtor will help, they use comparables (comps) here, determine what the house will sell for.
If your not comfortable with the realtor get another one.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 01:27 AM (9ppvE)
Posted by: Imklos is not an Attorney in your State, Province, or Autonomous Republic at December 26, 2025 01:19 AM (f/3mU)
Most certainly. Jan 1st the Reindeer Games begin
- ethics complaint to University of Tennessee
- ethics complaint Tennessee State Bar
- motion to cease and desist
- and something something retain all records and hard drives for discovery, which I'm told is a bitch who laughs "can you hear me now?"
Posted by: Fen at December 26, 2025 01:29 AM (id160)
All your tanker are belong to us.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Couldn't confirm a valid pic of the Bella 1 but the Skipper looked like it would be headed for the recycling bin. Govt. will probably auction it off.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 01:31 AM (9ppvE)
Every day brings a new bucket of horsecrap and all I get is: gee, I'm sorry you have to deal with that -- or -- what's taking so long instead of any kind of help, even though I have asked.
Yeah, bro & sis: "better me than you" right?!
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 01:32 AM (rdVOm)
You all will be able to hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth from across the country!
Posted by: JQ
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The suggestion of a couple of grand to a lawyer to settle it, represent you but keep you emotionally out of it is a valid consideration.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 01:33 AM (9ppvE)
So-- sell the house. Pay myself back (20k and counting!) and then split the remainder.
You all will be able to hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth from across the country!
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 01:18 AM (rdVOm)
Get the other deadbeat motherfuckers to pitch in and help you. If not, they shut up and get what they get.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 01:33 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 01:36 AM (9ppvE)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 26, 2025 01:37 AM (npFr7)
Rent a dumpster for the misc. I don't want to f around with yard/garage sale, there's nobody to help with that.
Lil bro can just get a hotel. Or stay home. Whichever.
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 01:38 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Tank "Stacey" Abrams at December 26, 2025 01:39 AM (f/3mU)
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That should be part of your recovery.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 01:39 AM (9ppvE)
Posted by: Berserker
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Yep.
My lawyer is out of town on vacay right now. Will get with him after new year & get rolling. I'm sick of all the lip-service but no action from bro and sis!
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 01:40 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: scampydog at December 26, 2025 01:42 AM (41CYW)
In the strangest of places if you look at right
https://tinyurl.com/3ujdh8b9
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 01:43 AM (viF8m)
Now return us to regularly scheduled ONT. Sorry!!!!!
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 01:48 AM (rdVOm)
It does no good to make the house better or as good as the top of the neighborhood houses. [If you put a pool in the back yard could you sell it for more? No.]
Lawn mower guy will take care of the yard. Look around the neighborhood, you're not going for yard of the month or house of the month.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 01:50 AM (9ppvE)
Hope you had a great Holiday with Elvis.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2025 01:52 AM (grNgC)
@Epoch Times 25m
Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Raw Oysters Infects 64 People Across 22 States: CDC
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 26, 2025 01:54 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 01:55 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 02:00 AM (9ppvE)
In the strangest of places if you look at right
https://tinyurl.com/3ujdh8b9
Posted by: JackStraw
So
new bong for Christmas
Most excellent
Posted by: non-bogueing Imklos at December 26, 2025 02:03 AM (f/3mU)
listening to the Dead.
Something is happening.
I got the candles burning low,
I got The Cramps on the Stereo.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2025 02:05 AM (grNgC)
Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Raw Oysters Infects 64 People Across 22 States: CDC
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Your point being?
Posted by: Unrepentant oyster eating Imklos at December 26, 2025 02:05 AM (f/3mU)
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Yard has been neglected since Mom died 20+ years ago. I have done what I can, trying not to spend $$$$$ but keep it reasonable. It's still sub-optimal.
Main thing, is that lil bro kept saying he'd come with a Uhaul & get furniture and various stuff, but didn't. Said he'd help clean the house and yard, but didn't. He comes here in summer, with his young son, and just fks off for a couple weeks at a time. Couple three years now...just digging that free hotel, hiding from the wife and getting drunk!
Fk that. I rekeyed the locks. No more BS.
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 02:07 AM (rdVOm)
I got The Cramps on the Stereo.
Posted by: garrett
garrett may not be gay after all
Don't tell Ace
Posted by: Unrepentant Cramps fan Imklos at December 26, 2025 02:08 AM (f/3mU)
https://youtu.be/-N4jf6rtyuw
G'nite, y'all. Have a good 2nd day tomorrow.
Posted by: mindful webworker - life goes by so fast at December 26, 2025 02:09 AM (uPdbI)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 26, 2025 02:10 AM (Zhwz2)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 02:11 AM (viF8m)
listening to the Dead.
Something is happening.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 02:00 AM (9ppvE)
The "something" is that you're becoming a dirty old hippie.
Break the cycle now - before it's too late.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 26, 2025 02:13 AM (Zhwz2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
TRUE FACT
Klaus Kinski's daughter was better looking than Klaus Kinski
Posted by: Imklosian Opinionations SA de CV at December 26, 2025 02:14 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 02:16 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JackStraw
Diagnosis
Both pot AND whiskey
And half a pizza somewhere
Posted by: Dr. Imklos at December 26, 2025 02:17 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Imklosian Opinionations
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I would hope so.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 02:17 AM (9ppvE)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends
TRUE FACTS are true
Facts won't do what you want them to
Posted by: vague recollections of the Talking Heads at December 26, 2025 02:20 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Big Oyster at December 26, 2025 02:21 AM (Zhwz2)
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 02:24 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 02:26 AM (9ppvE)
Oh, yeah: snot on the half-shell. No thanks. Blecch.
Posted by: JQ
Waiter?
I'll have her oysters, okra, and put her gluten-free gluten on the side.
I'll eat that too.
Posted by: Omnivoriklos sez MOAR 4 ME at December 26, 2025 02:31 AM (f/3mU)
God bless and good night.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 02:32 AM (9ppvE)
Posted by: Omnivoriklos looks to cheap oysters if I can panic people enough at December 26, 2025 02:34 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 02:35 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 02:35 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ghost of Owsley at December 26, 2025 02:43 AM (LyPw2)
Posted by: Spirit of Christmas Pleasant at December 26, 2025 02:43 AM (bKCnH)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2025 02:45 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 26, 2025 02:46 AM (RfoJT)
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It keeps spammers from overloading the hampsters. Just cut/paste like you've been doing, and you'll be ok. Promise.
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 02:47 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 26, 2025 02:50 AM (rdVOm)
Always.
We also used to play a game we called Dart Tag. Which was tag. Played with Darts.
Good times.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2025 12:37 AM (grNgC)
Me and my friend too. But with penises.
Posted by: Barack Obama at December 26, 2025 03:04 AM (Pjp4y)
Merry Feast of Stephen. Other than singing Good King Wenceslas, I have no idea what the appropriate activity for the day is, other than giving your true love two turtle doves. Maybe just avoid throwing rocks.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 26, 2025 03:30 AM (My5Us)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 03:31 AM (Ia/+0)
Truly role models for all to emulate.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 26, 2025 03:32 AM (My5Us)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 03:36 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 25, 2025 10:06 PM (DiN/5)
Six kids! Love this story.
Posted by: m at December 26, 2025 03:39 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 03:40 AM (Ia/+0)
Hauling that booty home around midnight was enough that 4am didn't happen
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 03:47 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2025 03:40 AM (Ia/+0)
TRY SOME KOKAINE!!
Posted by: SATAN CLAWS at December 26, 2025 03:54 AM (J/I8q)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
TRUE FACT
Klaus Kinski's daughter was better looking than Klaus Kinski
Posted by: Imklosian Opinionations SA de CV at December 26, 2025 02:14 AM (f/3mU)
I believe that is what is called...
A very low bar...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 26, 2025 03:54 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: m at December 26, 2025 03:57 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 26, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 26, 2025 12:45 AM (R2vJa)
Lucky.
All we had was the neighbor kid.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 04:01 AM (dK+Kv)
Christmas Cafe
Rescue fox is happy to see his rescuer come home. This cat is in heaven -- a rock-climbing gym. Christmas is more fun than a bucket of baby otters. Baby rabbit. (?) Hitchin' a ride. Bears and a bison enjoying the snow.
Weekend mood..😅 pic.twitter.com/pUVBCmBX1M
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 20, 2025
The king is coming 👑 pic.twitter.com/VpXtoVx7kY
— Cats all the way (@nekocatts) December 23, 2025
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 25, 2025 07:15 PM (oJ9lv)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 25, 2025 07:15 PM (oJ9lv)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 25, 2025 07:16 PM (oJ9lv)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 07:17 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 07:17 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 25, 2025 07:19 PM (OXYBr)
Stars look real though.
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at December 25, 2025 07:20 PM (zdQuL)
Posted by: Accomack at December 25, 2025 07:20 PM (/Chlc)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 25, 2025 07:20 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 25, 2025 07:21 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Ben Had"
The buggy has five wheels.
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 07:22 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 25, 2025 07:22 PM (kfTpm)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 25, 2025 07:23 PM (fUSwr)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 25, 2025 07:23 PM (OXYBr)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 07:23 PM (sDNVV)
Cats don't give a shit about what mood you're in, whereas Dogs can sense if you're sad.
Cats have no empathy.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 07:23 PM (NbzcP)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 07:24 PM (pkeXY)
What is odd about a five wheeled coach?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 25, 2025 07:21 PM (a4flb)
It was 6 wheels, but it looks like the chick is driving. It has 5 wheels now.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 07:24 PM (snZF9)
I'll bet my left nut Cats fit the profile for Sociopaths.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 07:24 PM (NbzcP)
President Donald Trump said the U.S. launched airstrikes in northwest Nigeria on Christmas night targeting ISIS militants he accused of killing Christians, calling the operation decisive and warning further attacks would follow if the violence continues.
"Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries!" Trump said Thursday on Truth Social.
"I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was. The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 25, 2025 07:25 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 25, 2025 07:25 PM (kfTpm)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 07:25 PM (sDNVV)
And she is a true back seat driver.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 25, 2025 07:26 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 07:26 PM (AMBVe)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 07:26 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!
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Every day should be Christmas day tor these bastards.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 07:27 PM (9ppvE)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 25, 2025 07:25 PM (L/fGl)
You better not pout, you better not cry
The word has gone out its time that you die
Americans will level your town
Trumps making a list and checking it twice
to see who gets an explosive device
Americans will level your town
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 07:28 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 07:28 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 07:28 PM (sDNVV)
This is fun. Kind of like those I Spy picture books.
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 07:29 PM (vFG9F)
Washington crossed the Delaware tonight, 249 years ago.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 07:29 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2025 07:30 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 07:31 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Indy Bill at December 25, 2025 07:31 PM (pIv1O)
I dunno if this is accurate, but it was at this time of day when General George Jefferson crossed the Delaware River, completing the trips at around 3 am.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 07:31 PM (AMBVe)
x.com/JeffDye/status/2004051749284561389
Posted by: t-bird at December 25, 2025 07:31 PM (OjdEO)
AI sucks
Posted by: Soothsayer
Or is there a bow on both sides of the light pole? 4th tail is behind all the other stuff.
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 07:32 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 25, 2025 07:32 PM (0yLoC)
Posted by: Soothsayer
Someone had to go back for more dimes.
Evening all.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 25, 2025 07:32 PM (c115l)
So, yeah, exactly 249 years from right this minute, Colony soldiers were crossing the river.
And a year from today will be the 250th Anniversary.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 07:33 PM (AMBVe)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 07:33 PM (tgvbd)
You better not pout, you better not cry
The word has gone out its time that you die
Americans will level your town
Trumps making a list and checking it twice
to see who gets an explosive device
Americans will level your town
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
------------------
He'll bomb you when your sleeping
He'll bomb when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 07:33 PM (9ppvE)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 07:34 PM (viF8m)
There's got to be a picture somewhere of Trump crossing the Delaware.
Posted by: Paco at December 25, 2025 07:34 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Indy Bill at December 25, 2025 07:34 PM (pIv1O)
He puzzled and puzzled til his puzzler was sore.
It came without Jesus. It came without Mary.
It came without Shepherds or Wise Men.
It came without churches. It came without God.
Christmas came just the same, said the Grinch.
Very odd.
Posted by: mindful webworker - couldn't make it rhyme at December 25, 2025 07:35 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 07:35 PM (9ppvE)
Was able to get 10 ribeyes from one of the bone in ribeye roasts. Dining on the trimmings.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 25, 2025 07:35 PM (c115l)
Expect blubbing from Democrats that Trump killed Christian-murdering Musloid terrorists without reading them their Miranda rights.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 07:36 PM (tgvbd)
ByGOLDIE KATZ
DECEMBER 26, 2025 01:23
Updated: DECEMBER 26, 2025 01:25
The United States launches a number of strikes against Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria, US President Donald Trump announced on social media early on Friday.
The strikes, which Trump claimed were "deadly," were ordered due to recent Islamic State attacks on Nigerian Christians.
"The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing," Trump said, adding that he wishes a "MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues." - JPost
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Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2025 07:37 PM (hhkIi)
https://tinyurl.com/pdvk4aem
Posted by: Paco at December 25, 2025 07:37 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Indy Bill
*snort
You gotta love 'em when someone has two left hands and no thumbs thanks to AI.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 25, 2025 07:37 PM (c115l)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 25, 2025 07:38 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 25, 2025 07:38 PM (0yLoC)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 25, 2025 07:38 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 07:39 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 07:39 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 25, 2025 07:38 PM (ynpvh)
Oh, it's at a zoo...nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 25, 2025 07:39 PM (ynpvh)
Revelation 6:8 -
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."
Love your Book
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 07:40 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 07:41 PM (xTuYU)
Nigeria is in WAT (West African Time), which is UTC+1. That's the same as CET, but DST rules differ. Don't think WAT does DST at all.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 07:42 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 07:42 PM (D9G5F)
When you zoom in on the woman in the 5 wheel buggy, not only does she a weird face, but she looks like she’s strapped into that buggy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 07:41 PM (xTuYU)
__________
Retouching by a rank amateur.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 07:43 PM (tgvbd)
ByGOLDIE KATZ
DECEMBER 26, 2025 01:23
Updated: DECEMBER 26, 2025 01:25
The United States launches a number of strikes against Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria, US President Donald Trump announced on social media early on Friday.
The strikes, which Trump claimed were "deadly," were ordered due to recent Islamic State attacks on Nigerian Christians.
"The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing," Trump said, adding that he wishes a "MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues." - JPost
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Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2025 07:37 PM (hhkIi)
https://youtu.be/6bkwuAzts9o&t=10s
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 25, 2025 07:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 07:44 PM (Ia/+0)
Every thing the Ford family touches turns to shit.
Posted by: Auspex at December 25, 2025 07:45 PM (YAFrp)
https://is.gd/qF0NDt
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 07:42 PM (D9G5F)
Aw c’mon dad, you’re not supposed to look at the kids shows that way!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 07:45 PM (xTuYU)
Thank you President Trump for the Christmas present.
I don't want to be greedy but I want more of it.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 25, 2025 07:45 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 07:46 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 07:47 PM (tgvbd)
x UTC. Two hours ahead of UTC.
The chick should learn how to use UTC and use it for a story that is going to be instantly international.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2025 07:47 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Considerate Of Others at December 25, 2025 07:47 PM (oftw2)
What's funny about Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town is we see she started out as an 8, (a ginger 10 ), and then turned into butter ball 40 minutes later.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 07:47 PM (D9G5F)
Security confirmed that the stalker Clavicula (pseudo name of Peters) ran over didn't get up.
https://tinyurl.com/yf4x5mf9
NSFW language
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 07:47 PM (9ppvE)
Posted by: Accomack at December 25, 2025 07:47 PM (/Chlc)
Thank you Ace, for this place.
Posted by: bluebell at December 25, 2025 07:49 PM (79pEw)
What's funny about Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town is we see she started out as an 8, (a ginger 10 ), and then turned into butter ball 40 minutes later.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 07:47 PM (D9G5F)
Mexican food does that to you...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 25, 2025 07:49 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 07:50 PM (6COFX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 07:33 PM (tgvbd)
---
President Trump does seem to be someone who likes to uphold American values and traditions.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 25, 2025 07:50 PM (ESVrU)
Jihadis need to die.
I don't know if we'll prevail,
but we sure need to try!
Posted by: Zombie Burl Ives at December 25, 2025 07:50 PM (0yLoC)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 25, 2025 07:51 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Paco at December 25, 2025 07:51 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 07:50 PM (6COFX)
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit;
Wisdom is knowing it goes on pizza, not pineapple...
Had a work buddy who loved Pineapple & Ham pizza. It's...okay. I like meaty dishes savory, not sweet.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 25, 2025 07:51 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 25, 2025 07:52 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Indy Bill at December 25, 2025 07:53 PM (pIv1O)
Posted by: Accomack at December 25, 2025 07:47 PM (/Chlc)
Put out a decree that all within his realm must return to their original home towns.
Especially the illegals.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 07:53 PM (xTuYU)
Thank you Ace, for this place.
Posted by: bluebell at December 25, 2025 07:49 PM (79pEw)
Amen!!
Both to Ace and not wanting to eat until 2026!
Merry Christmas to you and yours!!
Posted by: moki at December 25, 2025 07:53 PM (wLjpr)
Better living through chemistry.
Posted by: Pyrsyns with hair colors not found in nature (nose rings optional) at December 25, 2025 07:55 PM (0sNs1)
The standard for datelines is to use the *local time* the story is filed.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 07:56 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Pyrsyns with hair colors not found in nature (nose rings optional) at December 25, 2025 07:55 PM (0sNs1)
Oh!
Do you grow your own mushrooms too?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 07:56 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 07:56 PM (pkeXY)
Wisdom is knowing it goes on pizza, not pineapple...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 25, 2025 07:51 PM
To be fair, even haoles don't put tomato on their pineapple.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 25, 2025 07:57 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 07:47 PM (D9G5F)
Mexican food does that to you...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Manteca sno-cones.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 25, 2025 08:00 PM (c115l)
But, especially important to the bison, not all together.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 25, 2025 08:01 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 08:01 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 08:01 PM (ObnXN)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 07:33 PM (tgvbd)
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President Trump does seem to be someone who likes to uphold American values and traditions.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I'll go out on a limb and bet that the military that was involved, didn't mind working on Christmas Day.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 25, 2025 08:02 PM (c115l)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2025 08:02 PM (hhkIi)
'Odds that Pope Leo denounces this?'
He wants to make sure Catholics spend their Christmas thinking of the Gazans. Maybe he had enough time to ask for mercy for Christians. I didn't hear the speech.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 08:05 PM (fd80v)
I'll bet my left nut Cats fit the profile for Sociopaths.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 07:24 PM (NbzcP)
++++
https://galactanet.com/oneoff/anniesday.html
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 25, 2025 08:06 PM (syz1S)
IT can be confusing as hell for global events and time synchronizing, but that's the standard for news stories, near as I can figure.
For her, in her time zone, it was Friday when Trump the announcement. It's when it happened for the writer, not the time zone the event the writer is writing about.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 08:06 PM (w6EFb)
... tearing ass through the streets on snowmobiles?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 08:07 PM (/lPRQ)
...
the agent accepted donations to a charity that purports to help inner-city youth and victims of domestic violence but didn’t provide the services it reported to the IRS, according to several knowledgeable sources in the Secret Service community.
...
RealClearPolitics has reached out to the USSS and has been told a statement is forthcoming.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 08:07 PM (9ppvE)
Posted by: Tom Servo
I think the straps keep her from falling to the cobblestones. If I try to eyeball the 3D of it, she's too far to her left/our right. I think she's got one ass cheek on the seat and the other hanging outside.
Probably trying to stay away from Mr. Wandering Hands, there.
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 08:08 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 08:09 PM (9ppvE)
https://galactanet.com/oneoff/anniesday.html
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous
That's some weird shit, man.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 08:10 PM (ObnXN)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
I thought it was "tear-assing." Or is that just Minnesota-speak?
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 08:10 PM (nhCoE)
I want headlines to start with WHAT DAMN COUNTRY they are talking about.
I keep seeing headlines that would make an American go ballistic, but the story is actually from another country...
Or worse, lately, OLD stories... stories about things that happened months ago, but somehow get into the news feed as if it just happened.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 08:10 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Mayor Wu at December 25, 2025 08:10 PM (8np4X)
Posted by: Zombie Burl Ives at December 25, 2025 08:10 PM (0yLoC)
And have a good night
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 08:13 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 08:13 PM (ObnXN)
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There are live cams. Links too long to show here. Looks very quiet, a little breezy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 08:13 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 08:10 PM (ObnXN)
++++
Andy Weir, also author of The Martian.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 25, 2025 08:15 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 08:16 PM (9ppvE)
Posted by: PabloD at December 25, 2025 08:17 PM (Epuwl)
Posted by: JTB at December 25, 2025 08:17 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: PabloD at December 25, 2025 08:17 PM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Dr. Claw
Yet another reason I'm glad I left the Catholic church.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 25, 2025 08:20 PM (5Ne9C)
Bestest Kwanza Eva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCGBK1E0_uQ
Posted by: r hennigantx
========
Ho-ho-ho!!!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 25, 2025 08:20 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 08:20 PM (fd80v)
'Odds that Pope Leo denounces this?'
He wants to make sure Catholics spend their Christmas thinking of the Gazans. Maybe he had enough time to ask for mercy for Christians. I didn't hear the speech.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 08:05 PM (fd80v)
https://tinyurl.com/j39py6yp
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 25, 2025 08:23 PM (6Bc88)
'Yet another reason I'm glad I left the Catholic church.'
I'd hate to be giving that bum a tithe every week.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 08:23 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2025 08:28 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 25, 2025 08:15 PM (syz1S)
He’s got a strange, sad little fantasy life.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 08:28 PM (xTuYU)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 07:28 PM (Ia/+0)
As if you aren't.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 25, 2025 08:29 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Yep. It's not getting better anytime soon.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 25, 2025 08:31 PM (5Ne9C)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Yep. It's not getting better anytime soon.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 25, 2025 08:31 PM (5Ne9C)
One of these years we will get a Catholic. Right now it feels like the Clinton years blending into the Obamanation.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 25, 2025 08:33 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 25, 2025 08:35 PM (6ydKt)
'https://tinyurl.com/j39py6yp
Posted by: tcn in AK'
He doesn't say it your attachment but he does in this one.
https://tinyurl.com/2uaukt88
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 08:36 PM (fd80v)
https://youtu.be/VFa6W8Fs3PM
.....now I have.
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 08:36 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 25, 2025 08:36 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
It's to keep the tire wear even on the spare, so you don't have to replace all four. That's an all-wheel-drive horse.
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 08:38 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 08:38 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Yep. It's not getting better anytime soon.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
---------------
I read Cardinal Dolan was instrumental in getting Leo installed. So Dolan's a leftist? Didn't know that.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 08:38 PM (bQ4nt)
... this all reflects a significant reposturing of the U.S. military toward - Western hemispheric defense, effectively a Monroe Doctrine 2.0.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 08:38 PM (9ppvE)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
It's a left-turn mountain racin' carriage, obviously.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 25, 2025 08:39 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: tcn in AK
"And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." - Matthew 16:18
He doesn't say heck won't win a battle here and there, but that it will not prevail in the end. So you're right, we'll get a Catholic again someday.
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 08:40 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 08:38 PM (bQ4nt)
Dolan started out well but then he discovered celebrity and went all in. He is a terrible squish.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 25, 2025 08:41 PM (6Bc88)
South Korea detected a Chinese vessel trespassing in Korean waters. The Korean Coast Guard asked the Chinese vessel to halt so they could get on the boat & inspect it.
But as the Korean crew started to get closer the Chinese vessel tried to escape & attacked the Coast Guard with sharp weapons.
Eventually the Coast Guard were able to seize the 225 ton Chinese vessel & apprehended its 34 crew members, giving a clear & bold message that:
KOREA WILL NOT TOLERATE
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 08:42 PM (9ppvE)
https://tinyurl.com/2uaukt88
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 08:36 PM (fd80v)
So he is upset that murderous raping bastards sleep in tents but did he notice the families sitting shiva over dead babies? He is a dunce.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 25, 2025 08:45 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Braenyard
"Sharp" weapons?
Was that a strange Korean-Vietnamese-English translation, or were they going all Captain Jack Sparrow with the cutlasses?
Or is it a naval term I don't know?
Posted by: mikeski buckles his swash at December 25, 2025 08:45 PM (nhCoE)
But as the Korean crew started to get closer the Chinese vessel tried to escape & attacked the Coast Guard with sharp weapons.
Spear chuckers?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 08:45 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 25, 2025 08:46 PM (5Ne9C)
Ginsu knives?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 08:48 PM (X/1X8)
A former child star drug addicted and living on the streets of LA got a hotel room through the help of a former co-star . The drug addict promptly flipped over the refrigerator and threw the microwave in the bathtub .
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2025 08:50 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 25, 2025 07:20 PM (Kt19C)
Dude....it was nice knowing you....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 25, 2025 08:52 PM (jVcQn)
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Was that wrong?
Should I not have done that?
Posted by: drug addicted former child star at December 25, 2025 08:53 PM (2Ez/1)
in the form of a medium-sized cargo ship packed full of containerized vertical launchers, along with sensors and self defense systems.
...
designed as something of an improvised superstructure in order to turn the cargo ship into a heavily-armed surface combatant of sorts. This includes the mounting of a large rotating phased-array radar forward of the bridge atop three containers, as well as another domed radar or communications system across the deck from it mounted on two containers.
https://tinyurl.com/4wuah7p6
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 08:53 PM (9ppvE)
Posted by: Foster Family Trust at December 25, 2025 08:54 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 25, 2025 08:54 PM (0yLoC)
President Donald Trump said the U.S. launched airstrikes in northwest Nigeria on Christmas night
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 25, 2025 07:25 PM (L/fGl)
I hope they named it 'Operation crossing the Delaware'.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 25, 2025 08:55 PM (jVcQn)
You're not going to like hearing this, but the more I watch Bewitched, the more I see how much of a See You Next Tuesday Samantha is. She's a terrorist. And evil.
The show is Satanic.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 08:56 PM (X/1X8)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 08:57 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 08:58 PM (2Ez/1)
"Sharp" weapons?
Was that a strange Korean-Vietnamese-English translation, or were they going all Captain Jack Sparrow with the cutlasses?
Or is it a naval term I don't know?
Posted by: mikeski buckles his swash at December 25, 2025 08:45 PM (nhCoE)
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But as the Korean crew started to get closer the Chinese vessel tried to escape & attacked the Coast Guard with sharp weapons.
Spear chuckers?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Video:
https://tinyurl.com/4ryfjyc4
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 08:59 PM (9ppvE)
The Witch-Karen known as Samantha Stevens decides to terrorize this soup company owner and "teach" him a "lesson" about being nice at Christmas time. What a bitch.
https://is.gd/vH8mlc
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 08:59 PM (X/1X8)
Merry Christmas, Ace! And to the Horde as well. Will be eating turkey inside of 5 minutes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 09:01 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Soothsayer"
It's a show about a witch. What did you expect, harps and halos?
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 09:01 PM (vFG9F)
'So he is upset that murderous raping bastards sleep in tents but did he notice the families sitting shiva over dead babies?'
Like you, perhaps, I would find his mercy for the Gazans easier to take if he'd spare some words for their innocent victims.
Leo seems to be one of those leftist theologians who go beyond loving his enemies to championing them.
They makes them feel super duper holy but all it does is cloud Jesus' instruction.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 09:01 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 09:02 PM (vFG9F)
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You're not going to like hearing this, but the more I watch Bewitched, the more I see how much of a See You Next Tuesday Samantha is. She's a terrorist. And evil.
The show is Satanic.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 08:56 PM (X/1X
Well of course, but… Serena was Hawt!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 09:03 PM (xTuYU)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 09:05 PM (X/1X8)
Leo seems to be one of those leftist theologians who go beyond loving his enemies to championing them.
They makes them feel super duper holy but all it does is cloud Jesus' instruction.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
Meme of Jesus preaching:
"I see many of you sitting at the tables you were sent to overturn."
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 09:05 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 09:05 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 09:06 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 09:07 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 25, 2025 09:07 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Soothsayer
Presumably because they're Genies, and the humans just interpreted their title/species as a name.
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 09:07 PM (nhCoE)
'Meme of Jesus preaching:
"I see many of you sitting at the tables you were sent to overturn."'
That's as close as you can get to getting chewed out by Jesus.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 09:07 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 09:05 PM (fd80v)
lol you’re joking right?
(Samantha with a black wig and a naughty personality)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 09:08 PM (xTuYU)
"Actually, Die Hard was originally a pagan festival."
X, by @mutablejoe
Posted by: Sharkman at December 25, 2025 09:09 PM (/RHNq)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 09:12 PM (fd80v)
"Actually, Die Hard was originally a pagan festival."
X, by @mutablejoe
Posted by: Sharkman
That's so meta, Facebook is suing for trademark infringement.
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 09:13 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Soothsayer"
It's a show about a witch. What did you expect, harps and halos?
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 09:01 PM (vFG9F)
They have a statue of Elizabeth Montgomery (Samantha) in Salem Mass.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 25, 2025 09:15 PM (y171U)
There were more than 3, 6 in fact. There were three Billie Joes and two Bobbie Joes. But only one Betty Joe.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 09:16 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 09:16 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: mindful webworker - the great debate goes on and on at December 25, 2025 09:17 PM (uPdbI)
A former child star drug addicted and living on the streets of LA got a hotel room through the help of a former co-star . The drug addict promptly flipped over the refrigerator and threw the microwave in the bathtub .
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2025 08:50 PM (2vrAX)
Does the "former child star" have a name? Name it and shame it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 09:19 PM (npFr7)
I can't do this to me!
Posted by: Gaza at December 25, 2025 09:20 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 25, 2025 09:07 PM (Kt19C)
Got all wrinkly, I expect.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 09:22 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
There'd be a hell of a market for bottles of that water.
Another missed business opportunity. . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 09:24 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Half-Pints, Pints, Quarts at December 25, 2025 09:24 PM (oftw2)
The second Billie Joe, Swedish born Gunilla Hutton, went on to the cast of Hee-Haw, playing Nurse Goodbody.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 09:24 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Half-Pints, Pints, Quarts at December 25, 2025 09:25 PM (oftw2)
Chinese hillbillies poach fish in Korean waters, go all Deliverance on S. Korean coast guard when confronted.
Posted by: Gaza at December 25, 2025 09:27 PM (azNOR)
The second Billie Joe, Swedish born Gunilla Hutton, went on to the cast of Hee-Haw, playing Nurse Goodbody.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 09:24 PM (w6EFb)
I thought the second Bobbie Joe, Lori Saunders, was the cutest.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 25, 2025 09:27 PM (y171U)
A former child star drug addicted and living on the streets of LA got a hotel room through the help of a former co-star . The drug addict promptly flipped over the refrigerator and threw the microwave in the bathtub .
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2025 08:50 PM (2vrAX)
Does the "former child star" have a name? Name it and shame it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 09:19 PM (npFr7)
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Saw a clip of a male MTV child star on a San Francisco street - totally drugged, frail body.
Question was, what did MTV do to these kids?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 09:27 PM (9ppvE)
Posted by: Chinese collections at December 25, 2025 09:28 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Gaza at December 25, 2025 09:27 PM (azNOR)
China builds shitty boats; prone to taking on water suddenly. Make it happen, Korea!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 09:29 PM (npFr7)
This guy taking mixology to a whole new place.
X video: https://bit.ly/4pUeRf7
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2025 09:29 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 25, 2025 09:31 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 09:19 PM*
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A brief glimpse at an internet search revealed an individual named Tylor Chase.
I'm trying to care...
(grunts loudly)
Nope. Don't care.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 09:31 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 09:31 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2025 09:32 PM (2vrAX)
Lots of deserts.
Some wine
Watched Elf and Christmas Vacation.
Aaaaaand Christmas ‘25 is in the books.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 25, 2025 09:33 PM (MvI35)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2025 09:32 PM (2vrAX)
Hunter Biden vibe. Just not as well connected.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 09:34 PM (npFr7)
Chinese hillbillies poach fish in Korean waters, go all Deliverance on S. Korean coast guard when confronted.
Posted by: Gaza
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Follow an X link trail. They are cockroaches. They are fishing Krill and whales in Antarctica, off the east coast of S. America, S. China Sea. Anywhere there are fish there are hundreds of huge trawlers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 09:35 PM (9ppvE)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 09:35 PM (npFr7)
Billie Jo got pregnant by a traveling salesman and ran off with him, just to be dumped in New York, where she became a streetwalker until her untimely end.
Betty Jo got caught with Arnold the Pig and was tarred, feathered, and run out of town by the Hooterville Morality Society. Arnold's fate was not clear.
Not long after that, Bobbie Jo and "Uncle" Joe hopped on the Hooterville Express and were never seen again.
Janet Craig sold the inn to a family from India and moved to L.A.
As shown in the made-for-TV movie, Return to Petticoat Junction - the Dark Secrets.
Posted by: mindful webworker - tv trivia facts at December 25, 2025 09:35 PM (uPdbI)
Comes with the territory. If you had supernatural powers, you wouldn't play nice either.
It's why superhero movies are so stupid. They'd lord over us like demi-gods. Because they would be. We'd have to kill them all.
Posted by: Vote for the Mutant Registration Act Now! at December 25, 2025 09:35 PM (i5NeB)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 09:36 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 09:35 PM (9ppvE)
Remember, every culture is equal.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 25, 2025 09:37 PM (MvI35)
It's why superhero movies are so stupid. They'd lord over us like demi-gods. Because they would be. We'd have to kill them all.
Posted by: Vote for the Mutant Registration Act Now! at December 25, 2025 09:35 PM (i5NeB)
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Brandon Sanderson's Reckoners Trilogy plays with this trope. Humans have been gifted by superpowers from an unknown source. But this gift turns them into homicidal insane maniacs. The Reckoners are formed to stop them by any means necessary, as each Epic has a specific weakness that can be exploited.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 25, 2025 09:38 PM (ESVrU)
Janet Craig sold the inn to a family from India and moved to L.A.
As shown in the made-for-TV movie, Return to Petticoat Junction - the Dark Secrets.
Posted by: mindful webworker - tv trivia facts
Takes a depraved mind to ruin Americana like that! Just don't make up no stories about Tina Cole!
Posted by: Miffed To No End at December 25, 2025 09:39 PM (oftw2)
This guy taking mixology to a whole new place.
X video: https://bit.ly/4pUeRf7
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
Huh. A Samurai mixologist. That was cool.
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 09:40 PM (nhCoE)
One of those former child stars, don't know if this is the one or not:
https://is.gd/TciJr9
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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That's the one.
Talk about Epstein being bad. Those Nickelodeon and MTV people deserve a Millstone award.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 09:41 PM (9ppvE)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 09:36 PM (rdVOm)
BIL drama?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 09:42 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 25, 2025 09:44 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 09:44 PM (XSP3T)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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No, lil bro... I'm getting hit on all sides... fml
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 09:45 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Miffed To No End
She's 82. Still a Babealonia I'd bet.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 09:46 PM (cYBz/)
203 Follow an X link trail. They are cockroaches. They are fishing Krill and whales in Antarctica, off the east coast of S. America, S. China Sea. Anywhere there are fish there are hundreds of huge trawlers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 09:35 PM (9ppvE)
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I have seen the massive law-ignoring Chinese fish-taking operations described as strip-mining of the ocean. They take so much that no fish are left to breed. Empty oceans.
It looks like it's not just about grabbing whatever they can, it's about persistent lasting destruction of fisheries so that other countries can't get any more fish. Warfare.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 25, 2025 09:46 PM (VWtfl)
Been going for years.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 09:53 PM (viF8m)
Registry: UNKNOWN (was Panama until Oct 2024)
Insurance: None identified since the end of 2021
Classification: Was Lloyds up to July 2025
Multiple voyages of US sanctioned cargo from Kharg Is, Iran
VLCC
318,518 deadweight tons
1,092 feet
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 09:54 PM (9ppvE)
It is a big ship and they had to fly in someone qualified to pilot it. It's a thousand feet long and twenty stories tall. (that's what they are saying)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 09:58 PM (9ppvE)
PENTAGON SPECIAL OPS TO 'TAKE CONTROL' OF FLEEING VENEZUELAN OIL TANKER
Maritime Special Response Team will 'FAST-ROPE Bella 1' — quotes from WSJ, MSRT footage from Global_Conflict_65
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OK, is it fess up time or has someone copped your nic?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 10:02 PM (9ppvE)
TANKER #3 Bella 1 seized
Registry: UNKNOWN (was Panama until Oct (2024)
Insurance: None identified since the end of 2021
Classification: Was Lloyds up to July 2025
318,518 deadweight tons
1,092 feet
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Finally a reason for waiting to board the Bella.
It is a big ship and they had to fly in someone qualified to pilot it. It's a thousand feet long and twenty stories tall. (that's what they are saying)
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Jack Straw@JackStr42679640 . 29m
PENTAGON SPECIAL OPS TO 'TAKE CONTROL' OF FLEEING VENEZUELAN OIL TANKER
Maritime Special Response Team will 'FAST-ROPE Bella 1' — quotes from WSJ, MSRT footage from Global_Conflict_65
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OK, is it fess up time or has someone copped your nic?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 10:28 PM (9ppvE)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 11:24 PM (9ppvE)
Christmas is For the Dogs Open Thread
🎅🐾 Santa Paws has arrived! 🐾🎁
— Dogs Trust Ireland (@DogsTrust_IE) December 15, 2025
Today is the day when every dog in our care chooses their own Christmas surprise ✨ Wagging tails, happy hearts and pure festive magic 🐶💖#SantaPawsDay pic.twitter.com/x5Ca7GUuzC
Dog having his own fun.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/esnrLvrJ3Q
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 22, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 06:04 PM (/lPRQ)
Aoshima Go Go Go Mach 7 Full Version.
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 06:07 PM (vFG9F)
118 We might get a Chinook.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
One of my favorite dogs was a white Samoyed named Chinook. Such a good dog!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 25, 2025 06:05 PM (AoAME)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 25, 2025 06:08 PM (AoAME)
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I got to spend Christmas with the people and animals I care about.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 25, 2025 06:10 PM (tKhdt)
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 06:12 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 06:12 PM (xTuYU)
I'm probably gonna hafts buy a new office prog too...
Also a copy of Sen Kennedy's 'How to test negative for stupid' book.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 25, 2025 06:13 PM (AoAME)
Posted by: Pod Hamp at December 25, 2025 06:16 PM (lQBYU)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2025 06:17 PM (h7ZuX)
Diana is in purdah for misbehaving. We're letting The Big Dummy be King for a Day and he's loving it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 06:17 PM (tgvbd)
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New toilet seats.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 06:04 PM
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New ironing board cover.
Posted by: Also receiving votes at December 25, 2025 06:18 PM (2Ez/1)
I got nine gift cards. Nine!
I didn't realize I have become so hard to buy for.
Need to drop more hints I guess.
Anyways, hope everyone had a great Christmas!
Posted by: Case at December 25, 2025 06:19 PM (G1OIb)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 06:19 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 06:21 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Wow! I'd love one but where to park it?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 06:19 PM (cYBz
Maybe go high rise, like three stories.
Posted by: Eromero at December 25, 2025 06:21 PM (Slgjz)
My Favorite Things is not a Christmas song.
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 06:12 PM (QMAsf)
Neither is Fly By Night, but you probably listened to that a few times this month.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 06:22 PM (/TlUl)
Posted by: Boeing Defense, Space & Security at December 25, 2025 06:22 PM (2Ez/1)
My Favorite Things is not a Christmas song.
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 06:12 PM
+++
Get in line pal.
Posted by: Baby It's Cold Outside at December 25, 2025 06:23 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 06:24 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 06:25 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 25, 2025 03:49 PM (U/Byj)
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Yes it is still very Russian around here it is commonly heard on the street.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 06:26 PM (sF9Ts)
You forgot a Boom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMLIfL7p0iI
Posted by: Muddy Waters at December 25, 2025 06:27 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2025 06:27 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Pod Hamp at December 25, 2025 06:16 PM (lQBYU)
All this time I was just drinking the stuff. Didn't know you could smoke it -- do you need a special kind of pipe?
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 25, 2025 06:28 PM (GSe6k)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 06:30 PM (CTokg)
Posted by: Weeding Out The Crap at December 25, 2025 06:31 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 06:32 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 06:32 PM (fd80v)
DECEMBER 26, 2025 01:23
Updated: DECEMBER 26, 2025 01:25
The United States launches a number of strikes against Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria, US President Donald Trump announced on social media early on Friday.
The strikes, which Trump claimed were "deadly," were ordered due to recent Islamic State attacks on Nigerian Christians.
"The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing," Trump said, adding that he wishes a "MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues." - JPost
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We do not deserve this man.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 06:33 PM (CTokg)
Mr. S gave me gift cards for the local Ace and also Tractor Supply for the new garden!
He has excellent gift giving abilities- which he passed on to the kids.
Posted by: sal at December 25, 2025 06:34 PM (f+FmA)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 06:34 PM (CTokg)
Already hacked into the second Panettone.
It's a good day.
Thanks Jesus, for everything.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 06:35 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Pod Hamp at December 25, 2025 06:16 PM
Isn't it kind of hard to light?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 06:36 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2025 06:36 PM (2vrAX)
and...
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: DJT Signature Line at December 25, 2025 06:37 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 25, 2025 06:38 PM (IKyq4)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 06:39 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Achmed the Dead Terrorist at December 25, 2025 06:39 PM (2Ez/1)
3 Pima cotton turtlenecks - black / red / white
To keep my giraffe neck warm in the winter here in WNY
Posted by: browndog stuffed but looking for more at December 25, 2025 06:39 PM (TTAGa)
Gotta love technology. We no longer have to cross icy rivers on christmas eve to kill you in your sleep.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 06:39 PM (snZF9)
Yessss!!!!!
Posted by: pawn at December 25, 2025 06:40 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 06:41 PM (sDNVV)
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Thank you. I managed to save him from being ruined by my lib little sister.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 06:42 PM (CTokg)
Yessss!!!!!
Posted by: pawn
Cool! I once had a comely neighbor who didn't close the drapes, too.
Posted by: The Peeper at December 25, 2025 06:42 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 06:04 PM (/lPRQ)
Toilet seats!!??
Sheesh, in my day...
Naaa. Can't do it. Too easy.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 06:44 PM (2WIwB)
I'm required to bake a proper cobbler tomorrow...
Hoping all here had a wonderful day as well. The gift of AoS is one of my blessings.
Posted by: sal at December 25, 2025 06:45 PM (f+FmA)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 06:41 PM (sDNVV)
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This is from the blessing for children on Friday night
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 06:45 PM (CTokg)
Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 06:46 PM (6COFX)
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Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas night and attacked Trenton early Dec. 26.
But I still love the sentiment.
Posted by: Cosda at December 25, 2025 06:46 PM (D3zHV)
My Favorite Things is not a Christmas song.
Posted by: Doof
Speaking of which, here's a third song from mikeski's not-quite-a-Christmas-song list:
https://youtu.be/cpUp2QCz50Y
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 06:46 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 06:46 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: The Peeper at December 25, 2025 06:42 PM (oftw2)
Carol Burnett did a skit on that once.
Posted by: Zombie Tim Conway at December 25, 2025 06:47 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 06:47 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Pod Hamp at December 25, 2025 06:16 PM
Isn't it kind of hard to light?
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My daughter gave me one of those kits today and a bottle of Lancaster PA made bourbon. Can't wait to try it out.
Posted by: Cosda at December 25, 2025 06:49 PM (D3zHV)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 06:50 PM (0sNs1)
Heard from the rubber chicken in the first vid.
"Oh no. Not these *$$^%(#$ again."
Merry Christmas from the Great White (rural) Northeast.
Posted by: Orson at December 25, 2025 06:50 PM (dIske)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 06:50 PM (CTokg)
Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 06:52 PM (6COFX)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 06:52 PM (sDNVV)
A Diamondback by Vortex
6-24X50
reticle in mil-rads
2 Vortex rings
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 06:53 PM (snZF9)
"Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
If people left Hot Tea, Carrots, and Celery for Santa on the table rather than Milk & Cookies on Christmas Eve, I bet he’d be much, much, thinner."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 06:53 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 25, 2025 06:53 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: 3 young hookers who tour Dallas nursing homes and flirt with old geezers at December 25, 2025 06:54 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 06:46 PM (6COFX)
God Bless Us Everyone!
Posted by: Old Blue Pill Man At Shady Acres Retirement Home at December 25, 2025 06:55 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 25, 2025 06:55 PM (JpCuL)
Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 06:55 PM (pDt9x)
"Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
If people left Hot Tea, Carrots, and Celery for Santa on the table rather than Milk & Cookies on Christmas Eve, I bet he’d be much, much, thinner."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 06:53 PM (0sNs1)
You do that neil, hope santa shits in your stocking.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 06:55 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 06:55 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 06:56 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 25, 2025 06:53 PM (+mUZM)
And don't even mention the Alberta Clipper!
Posted by: Arctic Vortex at December 25, 2025 06:56 PM (GGatE)
Too bad that the Left has legitimized Islamic terrorists attacks in the US and all we can do after such an attack is bury our dead kinsmen.
Why is justice available everywhere else on planet Earth except the Western
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 25, 2025 06:58 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 06:46 PM (6COFX)
Then we settled in and watch the crash cart races. lol
Seriously, you're a great American.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 06:58 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 06:58 PM (sDNVV)
@neiltyson
If people left Hot Tea, Carrots, and Celery for Santa on the table rather than Milk & Cookies on Christmas Eve, I bet he’d be much, much, thinner."
Posted by: Duncanthrax
I'm banging your wife.
Posted by: Santa Claus at December 25, 2025 07:00 PM (L1JuH)
Posted by: LASue at December 25, 2025 07:00 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 07:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 07:01 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: LASue at December 25, 2025 07:00 PM (lCppi)
Nothing I hope. We need an optimist around the joint.
Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 07:01 PM (pDt9x)
You're still up, eh? Heh
Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 07:02 PM (6COFX)
@neiltyson
If people left Hot Tea, Carrots, and Celery for Santa on the table rather than Milk & Cookies on Christmas Eve, I bet he’d be much, much, thinner."
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Saint Nick is about 1750 years old. If the extra pounds haven't killed him yet, I think he's good.
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 07:02 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 07:03 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 07:02 PM (6COFX)
Well, It is but I have been asleep since 5. It has a mind of it's own. 4 hours and still going...
Posted by: Old Blue Pill Man At Shady Acres Retirement Home at December 25, 2025 07:03 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, First of his name at December 25, 2025 07:03 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 07:05 PM (vFG9F)
"Son, Shut! Up!"
-Neil's Mom, probably
Posted by: Pug Mahon, First of his name at December 25, 2025 07:03 PM (0aYVJ)
He's a leftist scold, a stick in the mud, a kill joy, and a sack of shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 07:05 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: tubal "
ISWYDT
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 07:05 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 07:06 PM (pDt9x)
But other than that...
Posted by: Neil at December 25, 2025 07:06 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 07:06 PM (7RYym)
My POSITIVITY just ended.
I'm sick and tired of these Marxist snakes hiding behind "democracy" to hunt patriots and silence dissent.
Kris Goldsmith—ANTIFA vet and admitted FBI asset—brags about infiltrating militias pre-J6, then watching the "insurrection" via SEVEN live feeds inside and around the Capitol.
How'd he get those feeds?
Who was he spying for?
What did he do with the intel? ...
...
https://tinyurl.com/4r9sc8b7
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 07:07 PM (bq0eC)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 25, 2025 07:07 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 07:06 PM (7RYym)
Did it have a five dollar bill in it? My Grandma would always do that.
Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 07:07 PM (pDt9x)
Daughter and Son-in-Law are up in the ice box of NY for Christmas week (while we enjoy 78° days hahaha), so we've got their two dogs meanwhile. SonM is here tonight with his two dogs. And then there's our great Malinois Daisy. An exhuberant pack. Canine Chaos for Christmas.
As the Stones sang, I sit and watch as fur does fly.
https://youtu.be/rK0CR3kUEsA
Posted by: mindful webworker - howling at the reindeer at December 25, 2025 07:08 PM (uPdbI)
Nothing I hope. We need an optimist around the joint.
Posted by: tubal
Jack Straw is Optimist Prime.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 07:08 PM (pkeXY)
59 SanFranpsycho, that is my understanding so I wonder why G-d chose Jesus to be born of the House of David.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 06:52 PM (sDNVV)
David’s a fascinating character study - embodies the saying that Great Men have Great Flaws. He made mistake upon mistake, great ones, but what distinguished him from so many others? When confronted with the truth of what he had done (as happened with the prophet Nathan) David *always* confessed his sin, begged the Lord for forgiveness, and threw himself upon the Lord’s mercy, Now he and his family suffered greatly for the sins of David; but they were not destroyed for them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 07:09 PM (xTuYU)
I think today is Gen Flynn's birthday. Or yesterday.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 07:09 PM (2UuuD)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 07:09 PM (sDNVV)
Nothing I hope. We need an optimist around the joint.
Posted by: tubal
Jack Straw is Optimist Prime.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 07:08 PM (pkeXY)
He is. I made a double entendre but he’s a breath of fresh air.
Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 07:09 PM (pDt9x)
Daughter and Son-in-Law are up in the ice box of NY for Christmas week (while we enjoy 78° days hahaha), so we've got their two dogs meanwhile. SonM is here tonight with his two dogs. And then there's our great Malinois Daisy. An exhuberant pack. Canine Chaos for Christmas.
As the Stones sang, I sit and watch as fur does fly.
https://youtu.be/rK0CR3kUEsA
Posted by: mindful webworker - howling at the reindeer at December 25, 2025 07:08 PM (uPdbI)
---
One nice thing about dogs is they are much more amenable to partying with strangers than cats are.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 25, 2025 07:10 PM (ESVrU)
"Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
If people left Hot Tea, Carrots, and Celery for Santa on the table rather than Milk & Cookies on Christmas Eve, I bet he’d be much, much, thinner."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 06:53 PM (0sNs1)
___________________________________
Memo: North Pole Public Relations Dept. (NPPR)
Re: Neil DeGrasse Tyson
To whom it may concern:
We are aware of Mr. DeGrasse Tyson's fat shaming of St. Nicholas. And, while we are above such petty spitting contests in competition with self-proclaimed Know-it-alls. We are not above assuring that the public is properly informed. Mr. DeGrasse Tyson is still miffed that he did not receive the gift he desired at age 7. While it may be perfectly acceptable for young Neil to covet a Raggedy Ann doll (we do not judge). We found it disconcerting how he used the magnifying glass he received the previous year to murder ants on the sidewalk. Perhaps one day Mr. DeGrasse Tyson will discover a bit of humility and courtesy, earning him the doll he wanted so badly. But, it's not looking good.
Sincerely,
Half Pint Goggins, Elf Team
Posted by: Orson at December 25, 2025 07:10 PM (dIske)
That was very sweet of your grandma, but either FenSpouse didn't have any money or he didn't think of it. I didn't think of it either.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 07:10 PM (7RYym)
I avoid politics Christmas Eve & Christmas, and usually do a good job sticking to it.
Believe me, I'll make up for it tomorrow, and my Pimp Hand will be as strong as ever.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 07:11 PM (gt1u8)
Well so far nothing has happened. 😉I just told FenSpouse this so he went out to the kitchen to get a dollar
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 07:13 PM (7RYym)
Posted by: Tuna at December 25, 2025 07:13 PM (lJ0H4)
I was starting to warm up to him too. His commentary on Pluti was almost endearing. If only he could stay in his lane
Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 07:15 PM (6COFX)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 25, 2025 07:16 PM (oJ9lv)
Posted by: LASue at December 25, 2025 07:17 PM (lCppi)
Pretty sure you're supposed to go outside, turn around, spit and curse
https://tinyurl.com/5n8s6wn5
But you're so delightful, I'll do it for you. Brb...
Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 07:23 PM (6COFX)
Ah, here's what's going on with the time zone. That's from the Jerusalem post. Israel time is UTC+2. It's 2:54AM, Dec. 26th there now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 07:54 PM (w6EFb)
Christmas Cookies Open Thread
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: From about That Time at December 25, 2025 04:49 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Piper at December 25, 2025 04:50 PM (aT5K/)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 25, 2025 04:50 PM (Ffc+8)
Posted by: Homer S. at December 25, 2025 04:51 PM (2HfbY)
A blind man enters a lesbian bar by mistake. He finds his way to a barstool and orders a drink. After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender in a loud voice, "Hey bartender, you wanna hear a dumb blonde joke?"
The bar immediately falls deathly quiet. In a deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says, "Before you tell that joke, sir, I think it is just fair, given that you are blind, that you should know five things..
One: The bartender is a blonde woman.
Two: The bouncer is a blonde woman.
Three: The woman sitting next to me is blonde and is a professional boxer.
Four: The lady to your right is a blonde and is a professional wrestler.
Five: I'm a 6-foot, 200 pound blonde woman with a Ph. D., a black belt in karate, and a very bad attitude. Now, think about it seriously, mister.
Do you still want to tell that joke?"
The blind man thinks for a second, shakes his head and says, "Nah. Not If I'm gonna have to explain it five times."
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 04:52 PM (IS8kY)
Posted by: C. Monster at December 25, 2025 04:52 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2025 04:54 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 25, 2025 04:54 PM (IzI84)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 04:54 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 04:52 PM (IS8kY)
As a blond- I laughed - And approve
Posted by: LASue at December 25, 2025 04:55 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 04:52 PM (IS8kY)
*snort
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2025 04:56 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 04:56 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 04:59 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 04:59 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 25, 2025 04:59 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: mrp at December 25, 2025 05:00 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 04:54 PM (wzUl9)
"Can you imagine a greater disgrace than a
Away, away with rum, by gum, with rum, by gum.
Away, away with rum, by gum, is the song of the Temperance Union."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 05:00 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2025 05:00 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Yeah, a Chinook would be easier than driving through the snow.
Posted by: MkY at December 25, 2025 05:00 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 25, 2025 05:01 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 05:01 PM (npFr7)
Miss Linda is going to roast some chicken this evening, so I'd better not snack beforehand.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 05:02 PM (wzUl9)
Then it just CLIX.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 05:03 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Anti-freeze
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 05:03 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: MkY at December 25, 2025 05:00 PM (q6tQZ)
The highways are mostly clear and dry. If a real thaw sets in, they will rapidly become wet and muddy, and I will go through windshield washer fluid like Hunter Biden goes through a mound of coke.
Looks like I may hit fine weather in southern Montana, or else in Idaho.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 05:04 PM (npFr7)
I miss the days when we could tell a good Polock, Aggie, or Blonde joke without getting canceled or killed.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 25, 2025 05:05 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: fluffy at December 25, 2025 05:06 PM (AN2gy)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 25, 2025 05:06 PM (kP+WN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 05:03 PM (XeU6L)
I'd make a pass with snow blower, then stop and warm my gloved hands in the exhaust stream exiting the muffler. Then put my warmed gloves on my ears. Then another pass. There was a bit of a North wind, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 05:07 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 04:56 PM
The rotor wash from a Chinook will definitely clear snow.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 05:07 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 05:01 PM (npFr7)
An Earl Holliman reference?!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 25, 2025 05:07 PM (kP+WN)
Cavorting. Definitely cavorting. And frolicking.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 25, 2025 05:06 PM
What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Gamboling at December 25, 2025 05:08 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 25, 2025 05:05 PM (a4flb)
I was an instructor at the Army's Intelligence School when the order came down: No More Ethnic jokes. So all the jokes became 2nd Lieutenant jokes. Just as funny.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 05:08 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 25, 2025 05:07 PM (kP+WN)
Who dat? I guess not.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 05:08 PM (npFr7)
I wonder if anybody leaves pot brownies out for Santa. He could stand to chill in a hot tub with a blondie (lesbian or no) and a bottle of Tickled Pink after a hard night of package delivery.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 05:09 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Gamboling at December 25, 2025 05:08 PM (0sNs1)
You can now gambol online with FanDuel.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 05:09 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 04:56 PM (npFr7)
Safe travels Grey Box Friend!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 25, 2025 05:10 PM (AoAME)
The ship was supposedly registered in Panama, but when the Admin contacted Panama about it, they said that the Bella had turned its transponders off and refused all communications for months. Panama disavowed anything to do with it, which means that the Bella was subject to seizure and confiscation by any Navy that wanted to take it.
And we just did.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 05:10 PM (xTuYU)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 05:08 PM
Clearly you had no moral compass which to map to.
Posted by: Butter Bars at December 25, 2025 05:10 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 05:11 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 05:07 PM (npFr7)
I make passes at snow blowers all the time.
Posted by: Frosty at December 25, 2025 05:11 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: garrett at December 25, 2025 05:12 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: T. Brady at December 25, 2025 05:12 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 25, 2025 05:12 PM (kP+WN)
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 25, 2025 05:14 PM (2Ez/1)
Lord of the Rings 1776, featuring Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Ben Shapiro, George Soros, Sydney Sweeney, Joe Rogan, and Elon Musk.
Quite funny...
https://tinyurl.com/22m48b5y
Posted by: One-Eyed Willy at December 25, 2025 05:14 PM (0z2bC)
Well, Merry Christmas to all of you in the Horde. I'm full of prime rib, mashed potatoes, green beans, and carrots.
Miley scored actual USDA Prime rib roast as opposed to Choice ($12.99/lb). It was darned good.
It was a warm one. Yesterday, I topped out at 79.3F, but today, 78.1F. GSP set a daily record yesterday at 75F, beating the old one of 71F set in '61. Christmas day record was 78F, set in '55, but they didn't make that. Looks like the official will 76F. Didn't get quite as much sun today as yesterday.
This warm spell will bump up the avg temp for Dec, which was pretty low up to now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 05:14 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Carr, the Floorwalker at December 25, 2025 05:14 PM (kP+WN)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 05:08 PM
Clearly you had no moral compass which to map to.
Posted by: Butter Bars at December 25, 2025 05:10 PM (0sNs1)
Used orienting line.
Want to buy some?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 05:14 PM (2WIwB)
Just checking in...
Spent much of the afternoon replaying an oldie but a goodie: Neverwinter Nights 2 (Enhanced Edition).
I had forgotten how retarded the AI can be. Makes Tim Walz look like a genius.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 25, 2025 05:14 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 05:15 PM (pkeXY)
And we just did."
+++
I voted for this.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 05:15 PM (2Ez/1)
https://youtu.be/DyH9UPRBUQY
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 25, 2025 05:12 PM (kP+WN)
Heh.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 05:15 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 05:15 PM (2Ez/1)
In spades!
I don't think there is a single thing the President has done that displeases me.
He says a bunch of shit that I don't like, but that is a very different thing.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 25, 2025 05:21 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 05:21 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 25, 2025 05:21 PM (NYInA)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 05:22 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Eromero at December 25, 2025 05:25 PM (Slgjz)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 05:25 PM (xTuYU)
Still opening presents with extended in-law families in the Inland Empire. I got a copy of Kennedy's 'How to Test Negative for Stupid' book.
Rib roasts cooking away. More families expected later this afternoon.
The torrential storms skipped over Christmas but I guess we'll have a rainy ride back to Orange County tonight.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 25, 2025 05:25 PM (AoAME)
Posted by: Max Power at December 25, 2025 05:26 PM (Qo/XF)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 25, 2025 05:26 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 05:26 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 05:27 PM (IS8kY)
This feels right. Jack Straw, can you confirm the trajectory of addiction?
Posted by: ace at December 25, 2025 05:27 PM (1wjle)
17
"Can you imagine a greater disgrace than a man monster in the gutter with crumbs on his face?
Away, away with rum, by gum, with rum, by gum.
Away, away with rum, by gum, is the song of the Temperance Union."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 05:00 PM (npFr7)
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Thanx!
Posted by: Organized Crime at December 25, 2025 05:27 PM (VWtfl)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 05:27 PM (IS8kY)
Depends on what you're reheating but a 250 oven might do the trick. Maybe stir every few minutes.
Posted by: Peaches at December 25, 2025 05:28 PM (2HfbY)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2025 05:28 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Eromero at December 25, 2025 05:28 PM (Slgjz)
Depends on what you're reheating but a 250 oven might do the trick. Maybe stir every few minutes.
Posted by: Peaches
Rib Roast
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 05:29 PM (IS8kY)
Posted by: Obscure Old SNL Reference at December 25, 2025 05:29 PM (Q+gd/)
thank you, and merry Christmas to you and your family!
Posted by: ace at December 25, 2025 05:29 PM (1wjle)
What is best way to reheat leftovers without cooking it more?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 05:27 PM (IS8kY)
Microwave on 50% power for 1.5 to 2 times typical reheat time
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 05:29 PM (QMAsf)
youtu.be/twp6_A6vxY4
Posted by: mindful webworker - jelly baby? at December 25, 2025 05:30 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2025 05:30 PM (IhIKR)
btw, my Rib Roast came out almost perfect. A little too much time in the Instant Pot, exceeded the ideal 135 degrees. But still pink & juicy.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 05:30 PM (IS8kY)
57 If the Bella is/was registered in Panama, surely there is an owner of record?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 05:22 PM (npFr7)
Yeah, and his mailing address is a post office box at a strip mall in Botswana.
Trump is making everyone aware that there is a large fleet of ships around the world that exist and carry contraband, and yet which are completely off the books. Everyone’s books.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 05:31 PM (xTuYU)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 05:31 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 05:32 PM (XeU6L)
Quick Food Question:
What is best way to reheat leftovers without cooking it more?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 05:27 PM (IS8kY)
For steaks and chicken I put them in a baking dish with some beef/chicken stock or broth, then cover the dish tightly with aluminum foil, Put it in a 325 oven for 20 minutes or so.
It will cook some but the stock will help keep it juicy.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 25, 2025 05:32 PM (6ydKt)
Still, and forever, the GOAT!!! Happy Christmas, Ace. Love you long time.
Posted by: Peaches at December 25, 2025 05:32 PM (2HfbY)
oh shit
Fire Engines just zoomed past. Nothing worse than Conflagration on Christmas.
People get stupid this time of year, and play Fast & Loose with Electricity.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 05:34 PM (IS8kY)
Fry them usually but got Covids late on the 23rd and been working my way through it with Paxlovid. Leaves a vile taste in my mouth so I have to punch up spiciness.
Delayed cooking the ham until after Christmas.
Pan fried Orange Roughy in wine butter olive oil sauce and sliced and small sliced and roasted potatoes for lunch along with some rough cut coleslaw with tossed apple cider vinegar and olive oil plus nuts, cranberries, and dried beet slices.
In some ways I cook better when sick as it takes my mind off of the misery.
Posted by: whig at December 25, 2025 05:36 PM (WDjG6)
People get stupid this time of year, and play Fast & Loose with Electricity.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025
***
That, or during cold weather running space heaters. Or both.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 05:36 PM (wzUl9)
Yeah, I still have some broth leftover, so that will help.
Microwave is just too damn harsh on meats -- it's ALWAYS in "cook" mode, no matter the power or time.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 05:37 PM (IS8kY)
Our rib roast topped out at 138F. Took it out at 120F. Miley wanted to do on regular bake and not convection the whole time. We seared with convection, but then went with regular bake. It was a smaller, ~6lb-er, and the longer time worked out for the timing with the other stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 05:37 PM (w6EFb)
Sorry for the dis-ease on this day. Hope you will get to enjoy your tasty vittles.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 05:38 PM (IS8kY)
Posted by: Soothsayer
Depends on what you're reheating but a 250 oven might do the trick. Maybe stir every few minutes.
Posted by: Peaches
Rib Roast
Posted by: Soothsayer
Sous vide it back up to 120. Give those bacteria a fighting chance!
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 05:38 PM (nhCoE)
Fog is rolling back in here in KY. It's supposed to turn bitterly cold again over the weekend. It's 61 right now. Monday night it might get down into the teens.
So... what did everyone get for Christmas that made an impression?
I got a cool little wooden drink/cigar holder made out of wood. Has a drawer for a lighter, a slot for a cigar cutter and ashtray. Nice.
And a leftover ham bone for soup.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2025 05:39 PM (NwnyJ)
btw, my Rib Roast came out almost perfect. A little too much time in the Instant Pot, exceeded the ideal 135 degrees. But still pink & juicy.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 05:30 PM (IS8kY)
Sounds good.
My brother grilled one last night.
It was quite good. I’ve got some leftovers for tomorrow.
I’m headed back over there here in a bit for some dinner.
Hoping everybody is well and having a good Christmas, especially Ace and the CoBs who keep it all going.
See y’all later.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 25, 2025 05:40 PM (6ydKt)
we all care about you and want you to beat this.
Posted by: ace at December 25, 2025 05:43 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 25, 2025 05:43 PM (CovfX)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 25, 2025
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Uh . . . just how much of a sacrifice are they willing to make?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 05:45 PM (wzUl9)
What is best way to reheat leftovers without cooking it more?
Posted by: Soothsayer
Before CBD chimes in... Sous Vide it!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 25, 2025 05:46 PM (kfTpm)
Posted by: ace at December 25, 2025 05:43 PM (1wjle)
*stands behind ace, nodding tearfully
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Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 25, 2025 05:49 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 25, 2025 05:49 PM (kfTpm)
Anyone planning to show up on tonight's ONT?
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 05:26 PM (QMAsf)
I'll try to drop in for a bit..... not that anyone cares...(kidding!!!)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 25, 2025 05:50 PM (AoAME)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 25, 2025 05:52 PM (Kt19C)
Tecovas, though pricey, does at least seem to have round toe models with a range of colors and materials -- goat, cowhide, etc.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 05:52 PM (wzUl9)
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Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 05:54 PM (wzUl9)
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Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 25, 2025 05:52 PM (Kt19C)
You can't go wrong with cash.
Posted by: Peaches at December 25, 2025 05:55 PM (2HfbY)
Posted by: LASue at December 25, 2025 05:55 PM (lCppi)
__________________
I got some nice stuff, but my giving really scored. My mate is really into an Australian prison drama that is no longer streamed anywhere. So I bought the DVDs and a multiregional DVD player. That went over really well.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 25, 2025 05:56 PM (SOtpJ)
Want to buy some?
Posted by: Diogenes
29 years or so go I was at my first (and only) duty station. Each squad had to shake their field gear, clean, repair, etc.
They thought it would be fun to send Newbie on a snipe hunt, "Hey, Butcher, go ask Supply Sgt Jones for some chem light batteries."....
About four hours after asking about six NCOs for "chem ligt batteries and BSing for a while, one finally asked, "You know there was no such thing, right?"
"Yup, but they didn't ask me if I knew that, just to go ask for them."
So, I wandered around the motorpool BSing while everyone else worked.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 05:57 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Looked at one, but as campers go, they are pretty small. Ended up with an 87 Toyota by Gran Ville.
Posted by: Sleepaway Camp at December 25, 2025 05:58 PM (oftw2)
My mate is really into an Australian prison drama that is no longer streamed anywhere.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
Wouldn't be Wentworth, would it, hahaha?
Wentworth is a women's prison TV series made in Australia, that's wacky & addicting.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 05:58 PM (IS8kY)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Literally smuggling ships.
They might as hell go full pirate.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 06:00 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 05:58 PM (IS8kY)
Huh, it's on Prime, just watchlisted it. Thanks for the tip!!
Posted by: Peaches at December 25, 2025 06:01 PM (2HfbY)
__________________
New toilet seats.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 06:03 PM (/lPRQ)
I'm over the moon!
Posted by: Wenda at December 25, 2025 06:04 PM (FRS+s)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
One of my favorite dogs was a white Samoyed named Chinook. Such a good dog!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 25, 2025 06:05 PM (AoAME)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 06:09 PM (pkeXY)
Like, with a Suburban slung under, that's two stops at least.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 25, 2025 06:11 PM (zdLoL)
And got chemo number two tomorrow.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 25, 2025 06:11 PM (sl73Y)
Bring your late comments to nood.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 06:14 PM (IS8kY)
What is best way to reheat leftovers without cooking it more?
Posted by: Soothsayer
You kinda have to. But, yes, in the oven for 20-25 min, covered works. I just nuke individual plates for people if I only have a few peeps eating.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 25, 2025 07:15 PM (mlg/3)
Safe Travels Open Thread
He's making sure he doesn't miss anything..🐶😅 pic.twitter.com/W0drF6lljh
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 21, 2025
Police officer caught playing hide and seek with his K9 dog..🐕🦺😊❤️ pic.twitter.com/ptWUOtiDks
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 20, 2025
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I'll bring it along to our Orphan's Christmas on Saturday. We'll see if they're interested.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 03:51 PM (qbLEp)
Not sure either can take out a soldier much less an M-1 tank...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 03:53 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 03:53 PM (qbLEp)
Haven't seen this crew in a dog's age, probably going to press on till the morning.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2025 03:54 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 25, 2025 03:55 PM (sAmhv)
I've said it here before:
When I see some dope driving around with those dumb fake reindeer antlers attached to his/her car at Christmas time, I automatically like that person.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 03:57 PM (IS8kY)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 03:53 PM (qbLEp)
Awesome!
*flicks Bic
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2025 03:58 PM (h7ZuX)
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Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 03:50 PM
‘Honey, do you care if I put my head in your lap?’
-my NOLA girlfriend from way back
‘Not at all, baby. Get comfortable.’
- me from way back
Posted by: Eromero at December 25, 2025 04:06 PM (Slgjz)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 25, 2025 04:08 PM (FLiOE)
My mon cherie, Greta T., got me something for Christmas that I've always wanted, a ThighMaster!
I can't wait to show up those other three pretenders to the 2026 Mr. Democrat Modern Masculinity title!
Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard alumnus at December 25, 2025 04:08 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2025 04:08 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 04:10 PM (qbLEp)
You go Dash …
Merry Christmas
Posted by: browndog stuffed but looking for more at December 25, 2025 04:12 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 25, 2025 04:13 PM (CDX35)
Lots of MSNOW ads where suddenly the Socialists and Communists of that network discover patriotism.
(Insert eye roll)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 25, 2025 04:13 PM (Wv0GD)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2025 04:13 PM (h7ZuX)
Now the cat is begging for chicken scraps.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 04:14 PM (kpS4V)
Nice lady at local taco shop gave me a very nice flannel shirt! I even waited for Christmas morning to open it. Mmmmm cozy.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 25, 2025 04:14 PM (Kt19C)
And ninety percent of the time, it was all my fault. Probably more.
The regrets and guilt are crippling.
I had so much potential in so many gifts.And I failed so spectacularly.
I let down everyone I let down God.
I'm going to hell and I know that so clearly.
I pray. God kills me clean and sends me to hell and doesn't put me through the hell on earth of dementia.
But I deserve that, and I deserve to be aware of every second of it.
I deserve to rot on earth before I rot in hell.
I'm sorry. i'm sorry. i'm sorry. Some things, you can repent all you want, but there is no forgiveness. Straight to hell. Since it's forever, I guess it would be reasonable just to get on with it.
I miss you. I was here such a long time. I'm sorry to be a burden. Some days the kitten is the only thing that keeps me from walking into the river. This is one of those days.
I'm sorry.
Posted by: OGCA at December 25, 2025 04:14 PM (iZd4T)
Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 25, 2025 04:13 PM (CDX35)
Ha! Just you try.
Posted by: Kidney stone trapped between the kidney and bladder at December 25, 2025 04:14 PM (Wv0GD)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 25, 2025 04:08 PM (FLiOE)
50?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 25, 2025 04:16 PM (Wv0GD)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 04:16 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird
That's the magic of Goreball Warming; hot or cold, rainy or droughty, it's the magic swamp gas to blame.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 25, 2025 04:17 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 04:16 PM (kpS4V)
If not, urine trouble.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 25, 2025 04:17 PM (AIsYF)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
The panhandle part is a gun barrel, right?
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 04:18 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 04:18 PM (qbLEp)
I really like the Little Drummer Boy song.
Even this one, by the black Carribbean band Boney M:
https://is.gd/qg7BRw
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 04:18 PM (IS8kY)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 04:18 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
If not, urine trouble.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
We're sorry, the calls are just flooding in!
Posted by: the urology clinic at December 25, 2025 04:19 PM (nhCoE)
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Posted by: rhomboid at December 25, 2025 04:20 PM (U/Byj)
I know what you mean, though. I have some transgressions that I can't ever forgive myself for, either. We can't undo these things, but we have to go forward and do our best to not make those mistakes and cause those pains again.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2025 04:21 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 25, 2025 04:22 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 25, 2025 04:22 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
If not, urine trouble.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
We're sorry, the calls are just flooding in!
Posted by: the urology clinic at December 25, 2025 04:19 PM (nhCoE)
You guys are a wizz at this.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 04:23 PM (2WIwB)
And ninety percent of the time, it was all my fault. Probably more.
The regrets and guilt are crippling.
I had so much potential in so many gifts.And I failed so spectacularly.
I let down everyone I let down God.
I'm going to hell and I know that so clearly.
I pray. God kills me clean and sends me to hell and doesn't put me through the hell on earth of dementia.
But I deserve that, and I deserve to be aware of every second of it.
I deserve to rot on earth before I rot in hell.
I'm sorry. i'm sorry. i'm sorry. Some things, you can repent all you want, but there is no forgiveness. Straight to hell. Since it's forever, I guess it would be reasonable just to get on with it.
I miss you. I was here such a long time. I'm sorry to be a burden. Some days the kitten is the only thing that keeps me from walking into the river. This is one of those days.
I'm sorry.
Posted by: OGCA at December 25, 2025 04:14 PM (iZd4T
Bless you, OGCA. I feel the same burden of guilt which can be overwhelming. But there's joy in the unending forgiveness of Christ, who chose to come to earth to suffer for YOU! Believe
Posted by: LASue at December 25, 2025 04:23 PM (UwBs6)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 25, 2025 04:24 PM (Kt19C)
Hey brother, even King David royally (heh) fucked up, and God called him a man after his own heart. Ignore the demon that tries to magnify your sins. God has already buried them. I have to remind myself of this at times...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 25, 2025 04:24 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 04:18 PM (JkO4W)
OYSTERS CAN SPELL!!!
Posted by: BC at December 25, 2025 04:25 PM (2WIwB)
i Am sorry you are having such a hard time. The holidays seem to often exacerbate the feelings of depression , extreme guilt and lack of self worth. God loves you and can forgive you: if you have honestly asked for forgiveness, God will forgive. The website " Got Questions" deals with this from a Christian perspective :
https://tinyurl.com/2bbktbhj
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 04:26 PM (PFs9e)
I'm sorry but I'm gonna throw you some tough love here. The people who could throw themselves a fuckin' pity party today are legion. The survivors either stop giving a shit or find a place of gratitude. I suggest you pull your head out of your ass and pick one. Sorry, I told you this wouldn't be pretty. And, also, if you do decide to off yourself, please don't try to take anyone else with you. Jeez, you are such a buzzkill.
Posted by: Peaches at December 25, 2025 04:26 PM (2HfbY)
I don't recognize "OGCA." Who is it?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 04:26 PM (IS8kY)
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Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
OYSTERS CAN SPELL!!!
Posted by: BC
* old-school golf clap *
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Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 04:33 PM (OeGHf)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 25, 2025 04:33 PM (AIsYF)
Wind gusts picking up...
Frigid Air incoming....
9 degrees tonight.
Baby Jesus will be warm, tho.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 04:34 PM (IS8kY)
New cigars, a new lighter, new driver for golf, and some balls.
Ahhh...golf balls.
Now when the hell is spring getting here???
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 04:35 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 04:33 PM (OeGHf)
Wishing you Teresa in Fort Worth a very Merry Christmas!!!
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 25, 2025 04:36 PM (bLA4G)
Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 04:36 PM (pDt9x)
Isn’t that where the famous tattoo comes from,
“No Regerts!!!” ???
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 04:36 PM (xTuYU)
Peaches, 20 or so years ago I sent you some digital Lebanese blonde hash, when you and I hung out here forever. Sorry I killed your buzz. Sorry I came back looking for help. Glad you didn't eat your revolver (fluffy?) when you were in the worst of places.And we tried to help you...
Sorry I suck.
Posted by: OGCA at December 25, 2025 04:38 PM (iZd4T)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 04:38 PM (IS8kY)
bale out in the net for the group of horses that gets to have free choice hay, burned some weeds, had a beer, hung out here and played phone games. Its supposed to be cold on Sunday so I decided I will cook turkey then and make a bunch of frozen meals from that. Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2025 04:38 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 25, 2025 04:39 PM (Kt19C)
That was a 3 by 8 foot hay bale.Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2025 04:39 PM (hhkIi)
https://tinyurl.com/msep3afw
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 04:29 PM (PFs9e)
1 John highly important to remember. I love everything John wrote. His Gospel is my favorite go back to again and again book.
Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 04:39 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 04:42 PM (IS8kY)
But it's still Christmas, and we are grateful for it.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2025 04:42 PM (h7ZuX)
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Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 04:46 PM (pDt9x)
https://youtu.be/bIgIIjf69LM
Posted by: mindful webworker - jelly baby? at December 25, 2025 04:46 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: Eromero at December 25, 2025 04:45 PM (Slgjz)
Have both!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2025 04:46 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 04:46 PM (pDt9x)
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I think one is now NYC Fire Commissioner.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 04:46 PM (qbLEp)
Sorry I suck.
Posted by: OGCA at December 25, 2025 04:38 PM (iZd4T)
No you don't suck and Merry Christmas to you as well.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 25, 2025 04:47 PM (bLA4G)
This does not mean you will not feel the pain, you always will - the necessary consequence of bad decisions. But it will fade slowly, and one can still live the remainder of your life striving to be who you were intended to be.
No denying that it does require a good deal of courage to face the pain and still go forward every day.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 04:48 PM (xTuYU)
blonde lesbian joke:
A blind man enters a lesbian bar by mistake. He finds his way to a barstool and orders a drink. After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender in a loud voice, "Hey bartender, you wanna hear a dumb blonde joke?"
The bar immediately falls deathly quiet. In a deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says, "Before you tell that joke, sir, I think it is just fair, given that you are blind, that you should know five things..
One: The bartender is a blonde woman.
Two: The bouncer is a blonde woman.
Three: The woman sitting next to me is blonde and is a professional boxer.
Four: The lady to your right is a blonde and is a professional wrestler.
Five: I'm a 6-foot, 200 pound blonde woman with a Ph. D., a black belt in karate, and a very bad attitude. Now, think about it seriously, mister.
Do you still want to tell that joke?"
The blind man thinks for a second, shakes his head and says, "Nah. Not If I'm gonna have to explain it five times."
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 04:49 PM (IS8kY)
Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 04:46 PM (pDt9x)
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I think one is now NYC Fire Commissioner.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 04:46 PM
How many lesbian fire commissioners does this country need anyway?
Posted by: Eromero at December 25, 2025 04:49 PM (Slgjz)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 25, 2025 04:50 PM (Ffc+8)
Posted by: From about That Time at December 25, 2025 04:50 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2025
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OGCA, in late '86 and early '87, when my wife had abruptly left, I'd quit drinking (related), and my mother died, it was pretty much the companionship of my big red tabby cat that kept me going on some days. I know what you mean.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 04:51 PM (wzUl9)
89 Christmas message from the one and only Real Doctor Who
https://youtu.be/bIgIIjf69LM
Posted by: mindful webworker - jelly baby? at December 25, 2025 04:46 PM (uPdbI)
Thank you for that, it was marvelous!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 04:53 PM (xTuYU)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 04:54 PM (XeU6L)
He will turn again, He will subdue our iniquities, and Thou will cast all
our sins into the depths of the sea.
Because He delighteth in mercy. Micah 7: 18
The Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Posted by: Kingsman at December 25, 2025 04:59 PM (ehY6c)
Posted by: Eromero at December 25, 2025 04:45 PM
There is no better time than Christmas to embrace the power, the majesty, indeed the magic of and.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 05:04 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 25, 2025 05:41 PM (CovfX)
Ghosts of Christmas Past Open Thread
Lost traditions of the Christmas buying and decorating season -- Christmas savers' clubs, Christmas stamps, layaway plans, bubble lights, Humbold statues,
I can't believe I forgot to post these:
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Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 25, 2025 02:35 PM (XMwZJ)
Waiting for "The Man Who Came to Dinner" to start on TCM. One of my annual must watch Christmas movies. Pork loin with cranberry sauce is slow cooking in the crockpot. Smells wonderful.
Posted by: Tuna at December 25, 2025 02:35 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Oh, sure.
You come waltzing in here with your fancy fonts and your store bought underwear.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 02:35 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: MkY at December 25, 2025 02:36 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 02:36 PM (/TlUl)
Waiting for "The Man Who Came to Dinner" to start on TCM. One of my annual must watch Christmas movies. Pork loin with cranberry sauce is slow cooking in the crockpot. Smells wonderful.
Posted by: Tuna
Don't forget the rye bread!
Posted by: Banjo at December 25, 2025 02:37 PM (pkeXY)
https://15minutelunch.blogspot.com/2008/08/
so-once-upon-time-i-found-this-catalog.html
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 02:37 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 25, 2025 02:37 PM (0U5gm)
You bring me joy all year long.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 02:37 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 02:35 PM (2Ez/1)
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Sure Store bought for my two older brothers, not me
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 02:38 PM (93/YK)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 02:38 PM (/TlUl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 02:38 PM (93/YK)
Posted by: tankdemon
My grandmother collected Hummel figurines. When she died, each grandchild received two of them. Mine still have the 'made in West Germany' labels.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 25, 2025 02:40 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Intern of Junior Samples at December 25, 2025 02:40 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Peaches at December 25, 2025 02:41 PM (2HfbY)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 02:41 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2025 02:41 PM (2vrAX)
BONUS! Everybody at home.
Very nice. God has been very kind this year.
Merry Christmas Y'all!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 25, 2025 02:41 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: NAOYV at December 25, 2025 02:42 PM (7zbO8)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 25, 2025 02:40 PM (0U5gm)
But we never tried real socialasm.
Posted by: Progressives at December 25, 2025 02:43 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 25, 2025 02:43 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Savvy Mover And Shaker at December 25, 2025 02:44 PM (oftw2)
Dan Vasc on the Tube does a heavy metal version; not what it actually sounds like but very interesting--and different.
Posted by: Lirio100 at December 25, 2025 02:44 PM (ky7/T)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
I love mincemeat pie! Yum. I've got key lime cheesecake for dessert. Fresh raspberries on the side.
Posted by: Tuna at December 25, 2025 02:46 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 02:47 PM (bQ4nt)
Merry Christmas, Horde.
My short review got enstompinated.
So I just finished watching the George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol.
*Ahem*
Scrooge was right.
Oh, sure, he was an asshole. No one likes assholes. But he was right. And honest. He told his honest opinions and you knew where he stood. That's not a bad thing. That's a very good thing. Lots of people whisper sweet nothings into your ear before stabbing you in the back. Scrooge never did that. Except for being a blunt asshole Scrooge never did anything wrong. The Ghosts of Christmas were just a bunch of guilt tripping motherfuckers.
Bob Cratchett was okay. Nice guy. Bit of a cuck.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 25, 2025 02:47 PM (1Yy3c)
But with robots doing everything now, why does the video go dark after every chiron?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 25, 2025 02:49 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 25, 2025 02:40 PM (0U5gm)
I thought all Hummel figurines looked like characters in a fairy tale. My mother loves them.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 02:50 PM (/TlUl)
The Ghosts of Christmas were just a bunch of guilt tripping motherfuckers.
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That scene in the cemetery in Mr. Magoo's Christmas used to scare the hell out of me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 02:51 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
Peasant (waving a turnip threateningly):
We used to DREAM of underwear! We had to make do with a bit of old sacking tied round the nethers with some string what the lord's horse threw up last Michaelmas! And you had to be grateful! "Thank you, oh mighty string!" we'd cry, while the wind whistled through our unmentionables like the Black Death on horseback!
Peasant 2 (nodding vigorously, face smeared with soot):
Aye! And when we wanted to feel fancy, we'd rub ourselves down with a handful of nettles just to get that warm tingly feeling. Luxury! Proper stinging luxury, that was. None of your soft, silky smallclothes for the likes of us!
Peasant 3 Well... it was only once... and it was more of a loin-rag really... and the rats ate most of it...
Peasant 1: RATS ate it?! You had RATS?! We could only dream of rats! We had to make do with imaginary vermin to keep us company at night! We'd lie there in the freezing muck saying, "Come on, imaginary flea, bite me proper! Make me feel alive!" And you had real rats nibbling your actual underwear. You lucky, lucky sod!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 02:51 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Antiques Roadshow at December 25, 2025 02:51 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 02:52 PM (xTuYU)
BONUS! Everybody at home.
Very nice. God has been very kind this year.
Merry Christmas Y'all!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 25, 2025 02:41 PM (iJfKG)
Sounds yummy. Chinese canceled our Christmas Story dinner (they ran out of duck), so staying in the spirit, we have an amazing takeout Indian and Nepalese coming - lamb, chicken, shrimp, and vegan foods ordered (1/2 for my allergies and half not b/c it's Christmas and I wasn't keeping my kids from butter chicken and lamb kadai or acres of naan)...
Here's hoping order #2, which even gave me 20% off for Christmas, works out. I had offered the kids traditional Italian Christmas (pasta and meat sauce), but they begged for the Indian and who am I to say no to a deal for a restaurant that wants me to buy their food this holiday?
Posted by: Nova Local at December 25, 2025 02:54 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
The ghost of Christmas future from the George C. Scott version scared the heck out of my son when he was little.
Posted by: Tuna at December 25, 2025 02:55 PM (lJ0H4)
@WilliamYang120
The Chinese military has simulated battles near Mexico and Cuba during a wargaming exercise – a rare insight revealed in a report on state television.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 25, 2025 02:56 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 25, 2025 02:59 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2025 03:02 PM (hhkIi)
But (transliterated) it's "C dnyom rozhdeniya khristovim" today, I think.
New Year's is 7 days away.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 25, 2025 03:03 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 25, 2025 03:03 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 03:03 PM (rghSL)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:05 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 25, 2025 03:03 PM (abIsI)
Did you listen to Jingle Bells or one of those songs wipipo like while you looked at the tree?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 03:06 PM (rghSL)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
Decidedly not!! If they had the red/green/blue/yellow spinning light wheel they were embracing DEI.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 03:06 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 03:07 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 25, 2025 03:03 PM (abIsI)
Did you listen to Jingle Bells or one of those songs wipipo like while you looked at the tree?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
Yes, as well as religious carols.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 25, 2025 03:07 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2025 03:02 PM (hhkIi)
Oh, bless your heart and thank you for the hearty guffaw. I'm not Jewish (although I do identify as a Zionist), I've simply outlived my relevance and (mostly) my cats. But, hey, skol!
Posted by: Peaches at December 25, 2025 03:07 PM (2HfbY)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:08 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 03:08 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 25, 2025 03:09 PM (EJWxb)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:09 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 03:09 PM (RuTUS)
The Chinese military has simulated battles near Mexico and Cuba during a wargaming exercise – a rare insight revealed in a report on state television.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 25, 2025 02:56 PM (mlg/3
Hmmmm
Very interesting.
A leak or misdirection?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 03:10 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: olddog in mo
Obviously a communist.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 25, 2025 03:10 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 03:07 PM (bQ4nt)
Holy fuckballs, olddog, my maternal grandparents had one of those back in the early 60s, it was SO weird and I was just thinking about it the other day for the first time in decades. Yes, they had the spinning light thingy.
Posted by: Peaches at December 25, 2025 03:10 PM (2HfbY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 03:10 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 03:11 PM (OeGHf)
Posted by: Ben Had
That sounds like a great show. Thanks!
And Merry Christmas, Ben Had. Thank you for all that you do.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 03:12 PM (rghSL)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:09 PM (sDNVV)
You, too, sweet Ben Had. I can't imagine 125 people at Christmas but isn't it wonderful to have such lovely Christmas memories to savor? xx
Posted by: Peaches at December 25, 2025 03:13 PM (2HfbY)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2025 03:14 PM (hhkIi)
Ten years mummified old women with hair died a dried blood red color and a red plaid jacket that looks like it was looted from a couch. Plus side she drove up in a Jeep that is wrapped in a Wonder Woman comic scheme.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025 03:15 PM (oP4FC)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:15 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 03:16 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 25, 2025 03:16 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 03:16 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 02:51 PM (cYBz/)
Shuts off computer.
No competing with that.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 03:17 PM (2WIwB)
Early 70's neighbors had an aluminum Christmas tree. They shined one of those spinning light color changing thingies on it. I wasn't impressed. Very cold feeling.
Posted by: olddog in mo
Yeah, never cared for those.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 03:17 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 25, 2025 03:10
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Obviously.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 03:17 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: VULGARIS at December 25, 2025 03:18 PM (cnz0C)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:19 PM (sDNVV)
>>What a frustration to be smelling a turkey cook and realize that there are two more hours before you can eat it.
There's always Scotch to get you through these dark times.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2025 03:20 PM (XV/Pl)
Her friend, she is wearing a black sweater decorated in Christmas lights while rocking red cowboy boots with long red tassels.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025 03:21 PM (oP4FC)
There's always Scotch to get you through these dark times.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2025 03:20 PM (XV/Pl)
Unless you have company. Then go with wine. No since giving visitors any of the good stuff.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 03:21 PM (2WIwB)
Kind of amazing how this has spread to become the common opinion on all media reporting, not just sports hype.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 25, 2025 03:22 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at December 25, 2025 03:23 PM (s54QH)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:24 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 03:24 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: olddog in mo
You're running up the score now. This is unseemly, ungentlemanly, and egregious. Amazed she stays with you.
Posted by: Give Her A Break, Will you? at December 25, 2025 03:26 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 03:26 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 03:26 PM (xTuYU)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:27 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:19 PM (sDNVV)
That sounds awesome! You will have to send Ace pics to post.
Posted by: Peaches at December 25, 2025 03:29 PM (2HfbY)
@Breaking911 16m
This daredevil hitched a kneeboard to the back of a pickup truck and took a muddy ride along Bear Valley Road through the heart of Hesperia on Christmas Eve.
x.com/Breaking911/status/2004284041743552605
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 25, 2025 03:29 PM (mlg/3)
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No breaks. The only year we had the Scotch Pine the needles clogged the vacuum and burned up the motor. The dry needles would pierce your arms. Not to mention lack of the true Christmas Tree smell you only get from a Balsam Fir.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 03:29 PM (bQ4nt)
52 Early 70's neighbors had an aluminum Christmas tree. They shined one of those spinning light color changing thingies on it. I wasn't impressed. Very cold feeling.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 03:07 PM (bQ4nt)
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Remove the branches and you have a festivus pole.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 25, 2025 03:29 PM (VWtfl)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:30 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 25, 2025 03:32 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:30 PM (sDNVV)
Well, if you're anything like me, you won't be able to read it anyway!
Posted by: Peaches at December 25, 2025 03:32 PM (2HfbY)
No breaks. The only year we had the Scotch Pine the needles clogged the vacuum and burned up the motor. The dry needles would pierce your arms. Not to mention lack of the true Christmas Tree smell you only get from a Balsam Fir.
Posted by: olddog in mo
If you value your Hoover over the woman who has put up with you since the Truman Administration, it reflects poorly on you.
Posted by: Chivalry Is On Life Support at December 25, 2025 03:33 PM (oftw2)
New Year's is 7 days away.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 25, 2025 03:03 PM (U/Byj)
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Yes but when I was there that greeting was not permitted!
I hope they have moved on from that.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 03:33 PM (A6iMD)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 03:34 PM (rghSL)
Posted by: DBCooper at December 25, 2025 03:34 PM (+daAW)
Special thanks to Ben Had for organizing the TXMoMe. What a wonderful time!
Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at December 25, 2025 03:35 PM (WE61Y)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 03:36 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025 03:15 PM (oP4FC)
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Around here that would mean Russian for sure. Add heavy perfume.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 03:36 PM (A6iMD)
Posted by: Peaches
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Hello, Peaches. My favorite is a telephone number that I jotted down...[I wonder whose number this is?]. The corollary is, of course, 'Where the hell is that number that I jotted down?'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 03:36 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:39 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Tennessee Volunteer at December 25, 2025 03:39 PM (l7UGP)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Also, orange cups filled with bird seed. Cut orange in half scoop out inside and string with red ribbon.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 03:43 PM (bQ4nt)
The prime rib mocks me from the oven. It thinks it's safe there. In about an hour, it will learn otherwise. Oh yes, have your fun now, prime rib...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 25, 2025 03:43 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 03:44 PM (rghSL)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:45 PM (sDNVV)
I was never there during holiday season. Only holiday I experienced was Navy Day (early August) up in Leningrad, which was quite interesting with the White Nights and especially the very loud illumination mortars they used in lieu of fireworks, fired from right near our location up over the river. Soviet fireworks = light military artillery systems = a clear example of superiority over the decadent west with its wimpy safety obsession.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 25, 2025 03:47 PM (U/Byj)
Definitely cramps the kids' style when they want to be critical.
Posted by: Wenda at December 25, 2025 03:48 PM (FRS+s)
Posted by: m
There's a LOT of that on Youtube.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
What are they doing, having an AI journalist write an article, then AI narrate it, then a third AI pass adding stock video footage?
All they need now is an AI to choose topics on the front end, another on thetail end to start a YouTube channel, upload, and monatize it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 03:48 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 25, 2025 03:49 PM (U/Byj)
Opening my last bottle here. I only see the 2022 now. Will have audition it for the New Year. That 2019 was special...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 25, 2025 03:50 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2025 03:51 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Tuna at December 25, 2025 03:52 PM (lJ0H4)
Almost time to overeat.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 04:02 PM (viF8m)
Christmas Market Open Thread
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Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 01:28 PM (/TlUl)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 01:30 PM (AGaAY)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 01:30 PM (AGaAY)
I blame the doorman.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 01:31 PM (/TlUl)
Posted by: Mary Clogenstien of Brattleboro Vermouth at December 25, 2025 01:32 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: PabloD at December 25, 2025 01:33 PM (Epuwl)
Posted by: U-Haul at December 25, 2025 01:33 PM (oftw2)
Home Depot ruined so many American stores/businesses.
CVS & Walgreens destroyed the corner drug store and the corner store.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 01:33 PM (RWBvi)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 01:34 PM (2Ez/1)
Gloomy family portrait.
Posted by: Tuna at December 25, 2025 01:34 PM (lJ0H4)
I was in that play when I was in high school, playing the ingenue daughter . It's a fun show.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 01:35 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Imam Tucker Carlson at December 25, 2025 01:35 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 01:36 PM (cYBz/)
The Importance of Tradition
No matter if you have big family, or you're all alone, you must have Traditions on Christmas.
The tradition can be a favorite dish or meal, or songs, or movie, or something you do on Christmas day, even if it's strangling a prostitute. Have and practice a Tradition on Christmas.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 01:38 PM (RWBvi)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 01:33 PM (RWBvi)
We had a good run.
Posted by: Super X drugstores at December 25, 2025 01:39 PM (R/m4+)
Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls & Ice Coffee
That's one of my personal "traditions" on Christmas morning.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 01:40 PM (RWBvi)
Gloomy family portrait.
Posted by: Tuna
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Hides the left side of his face. Probably stroke palsied.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 25, 2025 01:41 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 01:41 PM (xTuYU)
Posted by: MkY at December 25, 2025 01:44 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 01:35 PM (Nx5jP)
Did you get to wear the striped hat and toot the steam whistle?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 25, 2025 01:45 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 01:38 PM (RWBvi)
I agree, but as I don't cook (and don't like to cook), and don't decorate, because things never look "good enough", I fall back to music:
Handel's Messiah
Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas
Any Robert Shaw Chorale Christmas albums
As long as I have those playing, Christmas is in the apartment.
Posted by: browndog nosing about at December 25, 2025 01:45 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 25, 2025 01:45 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 25, 2025 01:46 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 01:47 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 01:49 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 01:49 PM (xTuYU)
Posted by: Fritzy at December 25, 2025 01:51 PM (2GIh1)
Do they say “Ya falla?” after each piece?
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Funny, I don't think of The Sting as a Christmas movie.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 01:51 PM (2Ez/1)
Christmas dinner was pretty good. I made lasagna. What did you guys have?
Did you get some cool gifts?
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at December 25, 2025 01:52 PM (t0Out)
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Our traditions: midnight run to Sheetz on Christmas Eve; Mimosas on Christmas morning;
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 25, 2025 01:53 PM (Zg4R+)
Back in the day that place was 'da bomb for toys. Even back then it was $$$
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2025 01:53 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Fritzy at December 25, 2025 01:54 PM (2GIh1)
Cinemas are usually busy on Christmas night. I think that's a shitty way to spend Christmas evening.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 01:54 PM (RWBvi)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 25, 2025 01:55 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 01:56 PM (RWBvi)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 25, 2025 01:56 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 01:57 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 25, 2025 01:58 PM (FMtrg)
The number of python libraries for data analysis and graphing is astounding.
So, incorporating that into the ERP is the task at hand.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2025 01:58 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: MkY at December 25, 2025 01:58 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Fritzy at December 25, 2025 01:59 PM (2GIh1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 01:59 PM (xMGre)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
As my Momma got older, she added zucchini relish.
Posted by: MkY at December 25, 2025 01:59 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 02:00 PM (xMGre)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 25, 2025 02:00 PM (FLiOE)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
Eh, sothren are ye?
Posted by: MkY
Indeed.
War Eagle.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 02:02 PM (2Ez/1)
If I did I don't recall it . It was a looooong time ago.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 02:04 PM (PFs9e)
Just got a bogus SPAM message from "Costco Wholesale" entitled Your Super Colossal Maine Lobster Tail Is Ready
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 02:05 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Fritzy at December 25, 2025 02:05 PM (2GIh1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 02:05 PM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Beartooth at December 25, 2025 02:05 PM (GGatE)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 25, 2025 01:46 PM (xTIDn)
Muslims find the solar year to be alarming. They still count Moons.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 02:06 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
Why are black eyed peas lucky?
( This is not the start of a joke?😉 ) I just don't know.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 02:07 PM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Your Rexall Druggist at December 25, 2025 02:07 PM (oftw2)
( This is not the start of a joke?😉 ) I just don't know.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 02:07 PM (PFs9e)
Because they've already been told once?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 02:08 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 25, 2025 02:08 PM (Zg4R+)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 02:09 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 25, 2025 02:00 PM (FLiOE)
Epiphany! Now I know why the Dems are trying to kill the Coal Industry!
They are angry about coal in stockings, and are trying to bankrupt Santa by making prices go up!
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2025 02:10 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Neilia Hunter Biden at December 25, 2025 02:10 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: browndog nosing about at December 25, 2025 02:10 PM (3sXRv)
Don't know.
But momma always served them.
And in the Deep South momma is always right.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 02:10 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: tubal at December 25, 2025 02:10 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 02:12 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 02:12 PM (8Xy/A)
I was told the beans are like coins and the green garnish is folding green.
You'll have good luck all year if you eat them
Posted by: barbarausa at December 25, 2025 02:12 PM (enw9G)
We still love Germany and hate what is happening to them.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 02:13 PM (2WIwB)
Yeah DEI! - Division, Exclusion, and Inequality
Posted by: Fritzy at December 25, 2025 02:14 PM (2GIh1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 02:14 PM (8Xy/A)
Civil War legend (most popular in the South) — During the Civil War (e.g., Sherman's March or the Siege of Vicksburg), Union troops raided Southern food supplies but often left black-eyed peas behind, considering them fit only for livestock. Southerners (including Confederates and enslaved people) survived on these "humble" peas, viewing them as a symbol of luck and survival. This tied into the saying "Eat poor on New Year's, and eat fat the rest of the year."
Posted by: MkY at December 25, 2025 02:15 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 02:16 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 25, 2025 01:46 PM (xTIDn)
They can't keep kicking that can down the road. They're going to have to face it. Better sooner than later. Or start saving up to pay the jizya.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 02:16 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 25, 2025 02:16 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 01:57 PM (cYBz/)
Dollly was a Tranny.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 02:17 PM (xTuYU)
"Know who else hated what happened to Germany?"
but then decides not to hit POST...
Posted by: Person struggling with impulse control at December 25, 2025 02:17 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: MkY at December 25, 2025 02:17 PM (q6tQZ)
(if you were lucky enough to have a ham to use the bone to cook a week later. Some use ham hocks instead)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 25, 2025 02:19 PM (enw9G)
We got a nice little video of Mr. George (Soyara's Dragon Slayer) enjoying his first snow in New Jersey and doing zoomies. Our young red boy looks so much like his great-uncle Dutch (The Beeg Boy).
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 02:20 PM (tgvbd)
Sounds familiar.
Posted by: Hawaiians eating Spam at December 25, 2025 02:20 PM (2Ez/1)
and keep drinking!
Posted by: barbarausa at December 25, 2025 02:21 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 25, 2025 02:22 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 02:22 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 25, 2025 02:22 PM (1Yy3c)
https://tinyurl.com/2dpj6873
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 02:23 PM (8Xy/A)
Try to look up why that’s supposed to lucky and nobody really knows why, lotsa stories.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 02:23 PM (xTuYU)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 02:24 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 01:57 PM (cYBz/)
Depression.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 02:26 PM (QcxL/)
May Jesus come into your life!!
Posted by: The Man from Athens at December 25, 2025 02:27 PM (maQAa)
Posted by: Ann at December 25, 2025 02:27 PM (w9jrX)
Discovered a fun new statistic: in Brussels, The Capital of Europe, 10.5% of the school kids are, you know, of Belgian ancestry.
52% are Muslim.
The whole point of the suppression of speech in Europe, abolishment of jury trials in Britain, etc. is to strangle dissent until the demographic changes are irreversible - and that point is not far away.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 25, 2025 02:28 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 25, 2025 02:28 PM (Kt19C)
*Ahem*
Scrooge was right.
Oh, sure, he was an asshole. No one likes assholes. But he was right. And honest. He told his honest opinions and you knew where he stood. That's not a bad thing. That's a very good thing. Lots of people whisper sweet nothings into your ear before stabbing you in the back. Scrooge never did that. Except for being a blunt asshole Scrooge never did anything wrong. The Ghosts of Christmas were just a bunch of guilt tripping motherfuckers.
Bob Cratchett was okay. Nice guy. Bit of a cuck.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 25, 2025 02:28 PM (1Yy3c)
Getting together with sisters, nieces and nephews tomorrow.
Merry Christmas everybody!
Posted by: Fritzy at December 25, 2025 02:29 PM (2GIh1)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Cause you were alive and had food?
Sounds like Thanksgiving to me
Posted by: MkY at December 25, 2025 02:29 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at December 25, 2025 02:29 PM (maQAa)
Posted by: E. Scrooge at December 25, 2025 02:30 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Fritzy at December 25, 2025 02:14 PM (2GIh1)
Division Basically Obamas 8 years summed up in a single word. Obamacare was 100% Division of US People that get the Subsidy and those that Pay for the Subsidy.
Exclusion Brown Harvard et al and every major social degree program is designed from the ground up to EXCLUDE. Since about 2005 that would be the White Male that is faulted for taking risk, working hard, being on time, and paying bills. The entire Trans movement is to make men girls (notice I did not say women) and women boys (notice I did not say men).
Inequality Fat Lesbian Fire Queen Chiefs, must BE a Black Woman VP, must BE a Black Woman SCTOUS.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 02:30 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: browndog sitting in the dark at December 25, 2025 02:31 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 25, 2025 02:28 PM (Kt19C)
/punchline
Dammit granny, quit sucking the chocolate off and spitting back the peanuts.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 02:32 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Tuna at December 25, 2025 02:33 PM (lJ0H4)
Don't forget their Republican theatrical partners, Fen, who never fail to fail, as if it's in the script.
Any traditional jobs for Deplorables, such as truck driving, have been deemed elitist white professions.
Posted by: t-bird at December 25, 2025 02:34 PM (OjdEO)
Europe is truly a beautiful movie set. Loaded with our history and ancestral memories. Don't know what to say about the recent 'settlers', though.
Posted by: t-bird at December 25, 2025 02:39 PM (OjdEO)
Posted by: Ronster at December 25, 2025 03:00 PM (4GQNV)
******
Good news, it's happening in NYC under Mongdammi.
When the dookie hits the rotating device, he won't have anyone to blame but hisself.
Posted by: Tennessee Volunteer at December 25, 2025 03:32 PM (l7UGP)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 25, 2025 03:41 PM (oJ9lv)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 25, 2025 04:18 PM (Wv0GD)
Hep Jazzy Christmas Yule Log Open Thread
Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra sing Christmas songs.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: zombie at December 25, 2025 12:13 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 12:16 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at December 25, 2025 12:16 PM (nz1sK)
Love Charlie Brown Christmas album
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 12:17 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 25, 2025 12:18 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 12:18 PM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Fiber One at December 25, 2025 12:19 PM (oftw2)
David 'I'm good, she'll have some' French
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 12:21 PM (MGYmP)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:21 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 12:21 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025 12:21 PM (77rzZ)
The part where the grip of perpetual winter in Narnia is beginning to thaw gave me chills as a kid, and then Father Christmas shows up.
"I've come at last," said he. "She has kept me out for a long time, but I have got in at last. Aslan is on the move. The witch's magic is weakening."
And Lucy felt running through her that deep shiver of gladness which you only get if you are being solemn and still.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 12:22 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Somali War Lord at December 25, 2025 12:22 PM (oftw2)
https://tinyurl.com/yf5keeub
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 12:23 PM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 12:23 PM (MGYmP)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 12:23 PM (sjyPY)
Very nice. Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 12:23 PM (PFs9e)
Merry Christmas, all!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 25, 2025 12:24 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 12:21 PM (wzUl9)
Sounds like shit parents would say to scare you into wearing the crap aunt clara sent you.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 12:24 PM (snZF9)
The part where the grip of perpetual winter in Narnia is beginning to thaw gave me chills as a kid, and then Father Christmas shows up.
"I've come at last," said he. "She has kept me out for a long time, but I have got in at last. Aslan is on the move. The witch's magic is weakening."
And Lucy felt running through her that deep shiver of gladness which you only get if you are being solemn and still.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025
***
I really need to read the entire series. As a kid, when I was the target age for the Narnias, I was reading TV Westerns, James Bond, and Alfred Hitchcock anthology. So I missed out. Lewis's writing style is clearly superb stuff, and his use of myth and symbolism is too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 12:25 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: browndog nosing about at December 25, 2025 12:26 PM (3sXRv)
https://tinyurl.com/yerjehf4+
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 25, 2025 12:27 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 25, 2025 12:27 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 25, 2025 12:27 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 12:23 PM (MGYmP)
It's Christmas, so I'm in a generous mood. Not burning.
Unless the target is a Venezuelan drug boat.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 12:27 PM (sjyPY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 12:29 PM (MGYmP)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 25, 2025 12:30 PM (kfTpm)
The weather has been so strange this year.
Merry Christmas to all.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 25, 2025
***
About the same in The Pesthole: 73 now, going up to 80 this weekend.
"Later on, we'll perspire --
('Is that A/C? Turn it higher!')
WE drive and we grump
O'er potholes and bumps,
Sweating in a sticky swampy land!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 12:30 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Don't Taze Me, Bro! at December 25, 2025 12:30 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 25, 2025 12:31 PM (MvI35)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025 12:32 PM (77rzZ)
Thanks . I particularly enjoyed "When you buy Christmas wrapping from Temu".
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 12:32 PM (PFs9e)
I had to go look for some Brandon Herrera to get the guns back
Posted by: blaster at December 25, 2025 12:32 PM (NlEaG)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 25, 2025 12:31 PM (MvI35)
(furiously stuffs snow into USB port)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 12:33 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025
[ *Bowing *]
Also:
"I'll be stretching this Christmas,
The chiro will handle me;
He'll pop my back,
My neck he'll crack
Between C2 and C3 . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 12:34 PM (wzUl9)
Oh, and as for the weather here: I don't know, 70-something. Sunny at the moment, some sort of chance of rain.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 25, 2025 12:34 PM (n7rxJ)
Sunny and 65 in piedmont NC.
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 25, 2025 12:34 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 12:35 PM (MGYmP)
Was playing the Charlie Brown album, put it on my tv on YouTube and my JBL speaker is playing too
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 12:35 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 12:36 PM (wzUl9)
And Lucy felt running through her that deep shiver of gladness which you only get if you are being solemn and still.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025
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That scene is great in the movie, with James Cosmo as a tough and buff Father Christmas.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 12:37 PM (qbLEp)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025 12:39 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 12:41 PM (RWBvi)
Posted by: Berwyn Mutt - Home of Svengoolie at December 25, 2025 12:41 PM (HcbZb)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025
***
"I'll Be Home for Christmas." The one they use in those endless pitches on TV for LoveShriners.org.
I gotta admit, one girl they use in those spots, the chestnut-haired one in the red plaid pajamas, is cuter than six baby bunny rabbits. She reminds me of girls I knew and admired from afar in junior high.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 12:41 PM (wzUl9)
The chiro will handle me;
He'll pop my back,
My neck he'll crack
Between C2 and C3 . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 12:34 PM (wzUl9)
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9.1
Points deducted for scansion in first line. "Stretched" works better.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 12:41 PM (qbLEp)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 12:41 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: mrp at December 25, 2025 12:42 PM (rj6Yv)
Points deducted for scansion in first line. "Stretched" works better.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025
***
Hey, I'm no Tin Pan Alley tunesmith!
(But you're right)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 12:42 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 12:42 PM (RWBvi)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 12:42 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: From about That Time at December 25, 2025 12:43 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 25, 2025 12:44 PM (E/x0c)
Those are always crowd pleasers.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2025 12:44 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: mrp at December 25, 2025 12:44 PM (rj6Yv)
I searched for lofi Christmas this morning and the entirety of my YouTube turned into Christmas music.
Posted by: blaster
If you watch just one police-cam video, it'll take a week for Youtube to stop pushing them on you.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 12:45 PM (RWBvi)
Posted by: mrp at December 25, 2025 12:45 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 12:46 PM (bQ4nt)
A very peaceful Christmas this year, let's enjoy it while it lasts. The New Year may bring an ugly mess.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2025 12:47 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 12:48 PM (2Ez/1)
("The Grinch was a visionary, man. He was way ahead of his time. A prophet without honor in his own country, man.")
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 12:49 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 12:49 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 12:49 PM (RWBvi)
Will report from there
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 12:50 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2025 12:51 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 25, 2025 12:52 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 12:52 PM (RWBvi)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 12:52 PM (sjyPY)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 12:49 PM (kpS4V
Yeah, Glove. Put on your happy face!
LINK (YT): https://tinyurl.com/vdceafeu
Posted by: mrp at December 25, 2025 12:52 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 12:54 PM (kpS4V)
Merry Christmas, everyone. Just finished the wonderful Christmas meal Smash made. Nom nom nom.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 25, 2025 12:54 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 12:55 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 12:55 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 12:56 PM (qbLEp)
Is Zero Mostel the same person as Yahoo Serious?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 12:56 PM (RWBvi)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 12:56 PM (qbLEp)
https://tinyurl.com/3r8manu2
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 12:56 PM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 12:56 PM (RWBvi)
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Not so much.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 12:56 PM (qbLEp)
We're soaking dirty dishes in water from the rain barrel for now. I may have to go to the gym tomorrow to take a shower. So many, many reasons to be thankful that this is a minor blip in my life.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at December 25, 2025 12:57 PM (FEVMW)
Enjoy 'em while they're still around.
Next thing to go is the cousins.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 12:52 PM (RWBvi)
Definitely the truth. My aunts and uncles are gone on my mother's side including my mother, and 2 cousins now too. On my father's side they all live, because Methuselah genes. My father's cousin is 98 and looks 80 if that. Mom's side is totally wiped out.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 12:59 PM (snZF9)
I didn't know Sim was actually Scottish. He is some about his life and movies . Reposted from tech thread:
https://tinyurl.com/3r8manu2
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
I've seen Green For Danger a couple of times. Liked it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 01:00 PM (pkeXY)
This is a mind-blowing way of looking at the miracle of life.
X video: https://bit.ly/4jary2K
"...so stop looking for all the shit that is wrong with your life and start being grateful for the statistically impossible miracle that is you.
Because just as Einstein said, 'There's only two ways to view your life. One, as if nothing is a miracle and the other as if everything is a miracle.'"
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2025 01:01 PM (P5BPp)
Looking forward to more duel 48 hour fasts and more sustainable weight loss in 2026! Lost 17 lbs in two months that include thanksgiving!
Posted by: The MewTwix at December 25, 2025 01:03 PM (XodLO)
And her children are fast asleep
It's time for Santa Claus
To make his midnight creep 'cause
Santa Claus wants some lovin'
Santa Claus wants some lovin'...
Posted by: Zombie Albert King at December 25, 2025 01:04 PM (R/m4+)
I have never seen that film. Just "Scrooge" and "Belles of St Trinians" and maybe one other, the name of which escapes me."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 01:05 PM (PFs9e)
that comment had Yosemite Sam written all over it
Merry Christmas everybody
Posted by: DanMan at December 25, 2025 01:06 PM (8uzBS)
Doesn't have to be your face!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 12:54 PM
A man can wear many faces.
Wiki of Westeros: https://bit.ly/3Yc8nw4
Posted by: Jaqen H'ghar at December 25, 2025 01:07 PM (P5BPp)
Costco bound $400,000 shipment of live lobsters hijacked en route to Midwest Costco locations.
The shipment was picked up in Massachusetts and never arrived at the stores.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 25, 2025 01:07 PM (3ek7K)
Crabcake benny, potatoes and onions.
Pomegranate mimosas.
And hugs.
Very high tide and a stiff north wind bringing some minor flooding. Amd it’s going to rain a bit.
Glad the power is on.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2025 01:09 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 01:09 PM (PFs9e)
The shipment was picked up in Massachusetts and never arrived at the stores.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 25, 2025 01:07 PM (3ek7K)
Maybe it's a cunning escape attempt?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 01:11 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 25, 2025 01:12 PM (3ek7K)
The shipment was picked up in Massachusetts and never arrived at the stores.
So somalis like lobster? I did not know that.
Posted by: Zombie Johnny Carson at December 25, 2025 01:13 PM (R/m4+)
If 18 years old, remaining time will be:
1/3 = sleeping
126 months = school and work
18 months = driving
36 months = cooking and eating
36 months = chores and errands
27 months = bathroom/personal hygiene
Leaves one with 334 months remaining for free time.
Today, the average 18-year-old is on pace to spend 93% of their remaining free time in front of a screen.
X video: https://bit.ly/493ClbX
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2025 01:13 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 25, 2025 01:14 PM (3ek7K)
You can bet someone is in hot water.
Posted by: Oh, no...crustation punz! at December 25, 2025 01:15 PM (2Ez/1)
Lol
Posted by: fourseasons at December 25, 2025 01:15 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 01:16 PM (M9v3V)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 01:16 PM (npFr7)
126 months = school and work
18 months = driving
36 months = cooking and eating
36 months = chores and errands
27 months = bathroom/personal hygiene
Leaves one with 334 months remaining for free time.
Today, the average 18-year-old is on pace to spend 93% of their remaining free time in front of a screen.
X video: https://bit.ly/493ClbX
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2025 01:13 PM (P5BPp)
They're way underestimating the time spent working which is roughly equivalent to eternity.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 25, 2025 01:17 PM (3uBP9)
Now, if the grandkids would stay out of the kitchen while Mamaw is fixing supper.... we'd be set.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2025 01:19 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: All cracked up at December 25, 2025 01:19 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Dirty Frank at December 25, 2025 01:19 PM (iZd4T)
Posted by: IYKWIMAITYD at December 25, 2025 01:21 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 25, 2025 01:21 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Jimmy Savile At The Home For Wayward Girls at December 25, 2025 01:23 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 25, 2025 01:23 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 01:24 PM (/TlUl)
Posted by: Joshua at December 25, 2025 01:26 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Save room for the turkey roll.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 25, 2025 01:26 PM (5Ne9C)
Affordability Crisis (tm)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 01:26 PM (M9v3V)
But no, they could not, in any way shape or form. This unique movie is utterly dependent on each of these three actors and could never be repeated.
Posted by: Dirty Frank at December 25, 2025 01:26 PM (iZd4T)
Yay, noods!
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 01:28 PM (/TlUl)
Posted by: Dirty Frank
Kiss our shorts!
Posted by: The Three Stooges at December 25, 2025 01:29 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Google Maps at December 25, 2025 01:31 PM (2Ez/1)
You know what else Einstein said? He said "stay off the twitter on Christmas."
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 01:31 PM (RWBvi)
Posted by: InvaderZim at December 25, 2025 02:05 PM (fFbm6)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 25, 2025 02:13 PM (XMwZJ)
The Morning Rant
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 11:01 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 25, 2025 11:02 AM (MRMHw)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 25, 2025 11:02 AM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 25, 2025 11:03 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Eromero at December 25, 2025 11:04 AM (Slgjz)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2025 11:05 AM (ncsOC)
Christmas babe.
http://alturl.com/5hvwv
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
Santa gonna get himself some cookies!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 11:05 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Cheri at December 25, 2025 11:05 AM (FGQ5G)
To which she let me know she's Jewish. But they were still going to get together.
Early Christians decided to put Jesus' birthday where it is on the calendar, not because they knew, but because there were already winter solstice and other celebrations going on. It made it easier for them to get their recent converts on board.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 25, 2025 11:06 AM (KwCuT)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 11:06 AM (7JH4o)
Posted by: Eromero at December 25, 2025 11:04 AM (Slgjz)
It's free online.
https://youtu.be/nud2TQNahaU
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 11:07 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 25, 2025 11:07 AM (u73oe)
Luke 2:16-18
Merry Christmas. May the Lord be with you and bless you this day. Every one of you.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 25, 2025 11:07 AM (c9rBD)
Posted by: mrp at December 25, 2025 11:08 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Norman Greenbaum. Maybe not a Christmas classic, but his one hit wonder still hits.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 25, 2025 11:08 AM (MRMHw)
As someone who worked at Taco John's, I am forever scarred by "Feliz Navidad." But, how can you miss this holiday classic by one of America's greatest musicians?
https://shorturl.at/Vzkpa
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 25, 2025 11:09 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 25, 2025 11:05 AM (ncsOC)
Yeah...no. I'm not talking about popular music; I am talking about the great stuff.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 25, 2025 11:09 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: 1990 In Hindsight at December 25, 2025 11:09 AM (oftw2)
I like her. I hope she runs for President someday day. Link from "Twitchy":
https://tinyurl.com/mjmetnha
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 11:09 AM (ZeH0U)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025 11:10 AM (2GVsD)
(Ooops. Mixed in a little Halloween and Dracula with Christmas.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 11:10 AM (wzUl9)
For instance, "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"!
Posted by: t-bird at December 25, 2025 11:11 AM (OjdEO)
I like her. I hope she runs for President someday day. Link from "Twitchy":
https://tinyurl.com/mjmetnha
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Vance/Sanders .
Rubio as Sec State.
Cuba free.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 25, 2025 11:11 AM (MRMHw)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 25, 2025 11:12 AM (U/j9n)
Posted by: muldoon at December 25, 2025 11:12 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 11:12 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Irving Jellydonut at December 25, 2025 11:12 AM (ncsOC)
Posted by: Emily Litella at December 25, 2025 11:12 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Mick at December 25, 2025 11:13 AM (HFx9z)
(Ooops. Mixed in a little Halloween and Dracula with Christmas.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 11:10 AM (wzUl9)
One of the greatest Christmas songs:
https://tinyurl.com/mrupkr5p
Posted by: BurtTC at December 25, 2025 11:13 AM (kYF0p)
Posted by: muldoon at December 25, 2025 11:12 AM (/iMjX)
This season's greetings is nice not naughty.
Merry Christmas.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 11:14 AM (dK+Kv)
Our family's gift to you:
https://tinyurl.com/AdventCalendarDay25
Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 11:15 AM (XSP3T)
Has to be AI
Posted by: Anna Puma
24 @20 NO WAY!
Posted by: Chairman LMAO
Don't you know you're gonna, shock the monkey!
Posted by: Peter Gabriel at December 25, 2025 11:15 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: Peter Gabriel at December 25, 2025
***
Monkey done seen *everything*. No way to shock him, man.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 11:17 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: muldoon at December 25, 2025 11:17 AM (/iMjX)
Wow. Imagine the pressure of knowing you're performing for the entire world...and nailing it.
Posted by: t-bird at December 25, 2025 11:17 AM (OjdEO)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 11:17 AM (ZeH0U)
- Hunter Biden
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 25, 2025 11:18 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 11:18 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 25, 2025 11:18 AM (kYF0p)
Posted by: t-bird
I was lucky to attend one of his recitals when he was in his prime. Once in a lifetime privilege.
Posted by: Tuna at December 25, 2025 11:20 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 11:20 AM (Ia/+0)
- Hunter Biden
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 25, 2025 11:18 AM (L/fGl)
Me too!
Posted by: N. Fuentes at December 25, 2025 11:20 AM (kYF0p)
https://tinyurl.com/22wk24v5
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 11:20 AM (w6EFb)
- Hunter Biden
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 25, 2025 11:18 AM (L/fGl)
The Bidens put out a Christmas photo and Hunter looks like he’s a few bumps short this year. A regular grumpylumkins. And puddin head is hidden way in the back.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 25, 2025 11:21 AM (fIo92)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 25, 2025 11:23 AM (fIo92)
Posted by: Sweets at December 25, 2025 11:24 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 11:24 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Peter Gabriel at December 25, 2025
***
Monkey done seen *everything*. No way to shock him, man.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Normally, I'd accept that challenge, but doesn't seem in keeping with the holiday spirit.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 25, 2025 11:24 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 11:25 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: From about That Time at December 25, 2025 11:27 AM (sl73Y)
Mama's wearing the lined cap I bought her. She loves it! She had some fancy Italian cookies with her coffee this morning.
Temp is currently 73. We may break a record today.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 11:27 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 11:27 AM (w6EFb)
x.com/JewishWarrior13/status/
2004224649488748611
LOL
Posted by: banana Dream at December 25, 2025 11:23 AM (fIo92)
They shoved the husk in the back, lol.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 11:28 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: From about That Time at December 25, 2025 11:28 AM (sl73Y)
The frozen turkey roll is in the slow cooker. About 4 below here, and very very still outside. I might take the snowblower out for a spin.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 11:28 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 11:29 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: From about That Time at December 25, 2025 11:27 AM (sl73Y)
Chestnuts?
Don't be bringing no gay stuff into this.
Posted by: N. Fuentes at December 25, 2025 11:29 AM (kYF0p)
Posted by: N. Fuentes at December 25, 2025 11:29 AM (kYF0p)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 25, 2025 11:30 AM (kYF0p)
Johnny Pavarotti
https://youtu.be/n1P9eI1kEK8
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
She was beautiful! She was young, she was innocent. She was the greatest piece of ass I've ever had, and I've had 'em all over the world. And then Johnny Pavarotti comes along with his olive oil voice and guinea charm and she runs off. She threw it all away just to make me look ridiculous. And a man in my position can't afford to be made to look ridiculous.
Posted by: Jack Woltz at December 25, 2025 11:31 AM (ycI94)
I'll be happy to give her some.
Posted by: N. Fuentes at December 25, 2025 11:29 AM (kYF0p)
Emmer not chestnuts. Emmer chestmelons.
And she is seated on a chest. Meta!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 11:32 AM (npFr7)
The fifth president was shot in the chest and nearly died 40 years before his election
Dec 25, 2025
https://shorturl.at/LcfpX
Don Surber (substack) from Instapundit
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 25, 2025 11:33 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: ... at December 25, 2025 11:34 AM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Happy at December 25, 2025 11:34 AM (2kJZi)
I'll be happy to give her some.
Posted by: N. Fuentes
https://is.gd/3fka8k
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 25, 2025 11:34 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Emily Litella
-------
Recalls painting of wolves attacking Russian sleigh:
https://shorturl.at/rTXEw
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 11:35 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025 11:36 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025 11:37 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 25, 2025 11:34 AM (L/fGl)
I saw a video of a real life version of that. The cop was female and cute. She read that part. The perp said "Your tits."
Posted by: BurtTC at December 25, 2025 11:38 AM (kYF0p)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 25, 2025 11:38 AM (XMwZJ)
https://tinyurl.com/55snd3j8
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 11:38 AM (ZeH0U)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025 11:37 AM (77rzZ)
No, Nick's not gay. All the men he buggers though, they ghey.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 25, 2025 11:38 AM (kYF0p)
Opera Company of Philadelphia "Hallelujah!" Random Act of Culture
https://youtu.be/wp_RHnQ-jgU
Nuggets are up. Gotta go Christmas.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 11:39 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 11:39 AM (ZeH0U)
Posted by: Bulg
No, he has sex with men, but has relationships with women.
Posted by: Ice-T at December 25, 2025 11:41 AM (OjdEO)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 25, 2025 11:43 AM (3uBP9)
2003914826540896367
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 11:45 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: torabora at December 25, 2025 11:46 AM (TLf58)
well come on down Skip! 71 and climbing today
Posted by: DanMan at December 25, 2025 11:47 AM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2025 11:49 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 25, 2025 11:49 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 11:50 AM (MGYmP)
x.com/equine__dentist/status/
2004175414214656080
Posted by: banana Dream at December 25, 2025 11:43 AM (3uBP9)
Dilly, dilly!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 11:50 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
Thank Goodness! I must have sung that hundreds of times before I actually 'heard' it.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 11:51 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 25, 2025 11:38 AM
There's an Onion article about that somewhere...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 25, 2025 11:52 AM (9iRTe)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 25, 2025 11:53 AM (Wv0GD)
http://alturl.com/5hvwv
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 11:01 AM (dK+Kv)
Yup, I would weld my doors shut. Not to keep others from getting in, but to keep me from getting out.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 11:54 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 25, 2025 11:55 AM (Wv0GD)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 11:58 AM (Ia/+0)
She must be some kinda badass.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 25, 2025 11:59 AM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 25, 2025 12:00 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 25, 2025 12:01 PM (R+Qe7)
https://tinyurl.com/2w7she3t
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 12:02 PM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025 12:04 PM (77rzZ)
- Hunter Biden
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 25, 2025 11:18 AM (L/
I think his definition of snow might be…different.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 25, 2025 12:04 PM (Wv0GD)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 12:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Eromero
------------
Wife switched to Christmas bags many years ago. Upfront cost higher, but reusability many years over saves in the long run.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2025 12:07 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 25, 2025 12:07 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: H.P. Lovecraft at December 25, 2025 12:07 PM (Wv0GD)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 25, 2025 12:07 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 25, 2025 12:08 PM (Wv0GD)
Thanks for asking It was fine. I was very touched that some of the family of one of our members who died three years ago came to the service. She always used to sit in the back with them and we had "Hark the herald angels" which was one of her favorite carols. They came in remembrance of her . She was a lovely woman and who was a public school teacher before schools went all woke.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 12:08 PM (rZCVI)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 12:09 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025 12:09 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 12:09 PM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025 12:11 PM (77rzZ)
Currently 71 degrees at Schloss Hadrian. Just so's you know.
It was very foggy this morning and driving nearly an hour in the dark for Christmas Mass didn't seem safe. Went instead to the parish (sorry, Catholic community) up the road instead.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 12:11 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 25, 2025 12:11 PM (Wv0GD)
pistol season is best duel season
Posted by: aaron burr at December 25, 2025 12:11 PM (edU/H)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 12:12 PM (pkeXY)
I spoke with my oldest buddy yesterday afternoon. He told me that his sister had sent a Christmas card to one of their long-ago neighbors and playmates, i.e., from when my friend was like 12. The card came back with a note: "We don't need this card. [The neighbor you sent it to] died two years ago." The end.
Talk about classless. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 12:13 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025 12:13 PM (77rzZ)
Tonight, dinner at Fogo de Chao and a stroll along the Riverwalk to walk off some of the gluttony.
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 25, 2025 12:14 PM (3lm7v)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 12:14 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 12:14 PM (MGYmP)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025 12:15 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 25, 2025 12:15 PM (XMwZJ)
Is there fighting between their residences?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 12:14 PM (MGYmP)
Dual duel?
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 12:15 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 12:15 PM (RuTUS)
When wife swapping goes wrong!
-Eyepatch McCain
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 12:16 PM (MGYmP)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 25, 2025 12:17 PM (XMwZJ)
Talk about classless. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 12:13 PM (wzUl9)
I have been called blunt, but I usually don't go out of my way to be vicious. You know, unless the person really misses me off.
What a fucktard.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 12:18 PM (MGYmP)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 25, 2025 12:18 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 25, 2025
***
Given a choice between that kind of rudeness and the utter silence I got this past January when I sent my former mother-in-law a condolence card and note on the death of her daughter, my second wife, I guess I'll take the silence. At least you can tell yourself, "Maybe the card got lost in the mail."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 12:19 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 25, 2025 12:19 PM (3lm7v)
The part where the grip of perpetual winter in Narnia is beginning to thaw gave me chills as a kid, and then Father Christmas shows up.
"I've come at last," said he. "She has kept me out for a long time, but I have got in at last. Aslan is on the move. The witch's magic is weakening."
And Lucy felt running through her that deep shiver of gladness which you only get if you are being solemn and still.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 12:20 PM (kpS4V)
Looking forward to more duel 48 hour fasts and more sustainable weight loss in 2026! Lost 17 lbs in two months that include thanksgiving!
Posted by: The MewTwix at December 25, 2025 01:03 PM (XodLO)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 25, 2025 04:12 PM (FLiOE)
Christians worship a Jew, we read much of the Jewish 'Bible'. We use Jewish names (David, Michael, Luigi, etc)
Like it or not, Jews and Christians are inexorably linked.
Merry Christmas
Posted by: YosemiteSatchmo at December 25, 2025 04:13 PM (NEFaB)
I'm so sorry Wolfus. They must still be in such pain that they're like a drowning man, pulling a considerate hand down with them. FWIW you're a good man for enduring this. God Himself is proud of you
Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 07:43 PM (6COFX)
CBD and JJ Sefton, G-d bless and keep you as well.
May Christians and Jews work to overcome Islamic terror and make the world a place we want for ourselves and our descendants.
Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 25, 2025 10:09 PM (ot1oq)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Domenikos Theotokopoulos
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 09:30 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Otto Pen at December 25, 2025 09:30 AM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 09:31 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Otto Pen at December 25, 2025 09:31 AM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 09:32 AM (qbLEp)
Posted by: Otto Pen
I don't know at least the artist drew a baby, not a toddler like most renderings.
Posted by: Art Maven at December 25, 2025 09:33 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 25, 2025 09:33 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 09:33 AM (xMGre)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 09:34 AM (qbLEp)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 25, 2025 09:35 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Make Colors POP! at December 25, 2025 09:35 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: George Slopadopoulos, ABC "News" at December 25, 2025 09:36 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 09:36 AM (xMGre)
Title:
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Artist:
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (Greek, Iráklion (Candia) 1541–1614 Toledo)
Date:
ca. 1605–10
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
56 7/8 x 39 7/8 in. (144.5 x 101.3 cm); with added strips 64 1/2 x 42 in. (163.8 x 106.7 cm)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 09:36 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: gaf gaf at December 25, 2025 09:36 AM (/w3j2)
Posted by: President Emeritus at December 25, 2025 09:37 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Tuna at December 25, 2025 09:37 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Otto Pen at December 25, 2025 09:37 AM (sJHOI)
Posted by: gaf gaf at December 25, 2025 09:36 AM (/w3j2)
Yup. I'm fixing it...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 25, 2025 09:37 AM (n9ltV)
Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
“Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 09:38 AM (gbOdA)
Hmmmmmm. .. Or what date did he use - 12/25/0000?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 09:38 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 09:38 AM (gbOdA)
Plus a lamb and a donkey (?). Good work getting all that in. I do agree it could be brighter.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 09:38 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 09:39 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 09:40 AM (sjyPY)
It is my little way of trying to learn something new.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 09:40 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 09:41 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 09:41 AM (qbLEp)
Posted by: dantesed at December 25, 2025 09:41 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Otto Pen at December 25, 2025 09:42 AM (sJHOI)
Posted by: GE-We Bring Good Things To Life at December 25, 2025 09:42 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: gp at December 25, 2025 09:42 AM (GHIyr)
Posted by: gaf gaf at December 25, 2025 09:42 AM (/w3j2)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025
***
The zero was supposed to have been contributed by the Arab world, later on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 09:42 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 09:41 AM (wzUl9)
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Lamb. Symbolism.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 09:42 AM (qbLEp)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 09:43 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025 09:43 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025
***
He knows the shepherds are going to sacrifice him!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 09:44 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Mr. Pitt at December 25, 2025 09:44 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025 09:43 AM (2GVsD)
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Perhaps it is also new born. Symbolism.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 09:44 AM (qbLEp)
Posted by: dantesed at December 25, 2025 09:44 AM (Oy/m2)
Yes, this one is very dark, but keep in mind that the setting is inside a barn at midnight.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 09:44 AM (sjyPY)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 09:46 AM (wzUl9)
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I appreciate those details they always add context and meaning to the piece.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 09:46 AM (BW4I7)
Posted by: dantesed at December 25, 2025
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Unfortunately they forgot to devise the numbers 1 through 9.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 09:46 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 25, 2025 09:47 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 09:47 AM (xMGre)
Posted by: Otto Pen at December 25, 2025 09:42 AM (sJHOI)
Would that make him a mini Minotaur?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 09:48 AM (sjyPY)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025 09:49 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 25, 2025 09:49 AM (9iRTe)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 09:49 AM (xMGre)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025 09:49 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 09:51 AM (gbOdA)
Dark, yes, but I like it
Posted by: barbarausa at December 25, 2025 09:51 AM (enw9G)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 09:41 AM (qbLEp)
Norman Rockwell had an affliction that also contributed to his renditions.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025 09:51 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 09:52 AM (lQ+/f)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025
***
He knows the shepherds are going to sacrifice him!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 09:44 AM (wzUl9)
he vegetarian
alright I make you lamb
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 09:53 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Or a Scorecard at December 25, 2025 09:55 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 09:55 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 25, 2025 09:55 AM (Wv0GD)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025 09:57 AM (KDPiq)
And every time I see this artists name, I understand why the Spanish just called him El Greco.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 09:57 AM (7JH4o)
http://tiny.cc/57vw001
Tap between the two miniaturized versions of painting above the article.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 09:57 AM (sjyPY)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 09:58 AM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 09:57 AM (7JH4o)
He signed his paintings with his Greek name which must have been a chore in itself.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025 09:59 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 09:59 AM (+HNx/)
And every time I see this artists name, I understand why the Spanish just called him El Greco.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 09:57 AM (7JH4o)
True. It should not take fifteen minutes and a tongue as agile as a sugar glider just to say your name.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 10:00 AM (sjyPY)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025 10:01 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 09:40 AM (gbOdA)
And it is much appreciated.
Merry Christmas!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 25, 2025 10:01 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 25, 2025 10:02 AM (Riz8t)
Did the other Magus demyrrh?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 25, 2025 10:03 AM (Riz8t)
Wait . . .
Merry Christmas to you all.
Except that one guy. You know who you are.
Posted by: RI Red at December 25, 2025 10:03 AM (UDARB)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025 10:01 AM (KDPiq)
Giddy up!
Oh, wait, I didn't see the "w." My bad.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 10:03 AM (sjyPY)
Wait . . .
Merry Christmas to you all.
Except that one guy. You know who you are.
*universal shifty eyes*
Posted by: The Horde at December 25, 2025 10:03 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 25, 2025 10:04 AM (enw9G)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 09:55 AM (gbOdA)
Every time I see this verse, the music starts to play in my head! For me, tied with the Hallelujah Chorus as the best piece Handel wrote.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 10:05 AM (7JH4o)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 10:05 AM (+HNx/)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. It's Christmas!!! Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy Boxing Day to all the Horde. Thanks for being such a great group.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 10:05 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Or a Scorecard at December 25, 2025 09:55 AM (oftw2)
One of the fun things about Art History classes...you learn who the various characters are in classical art by the symbols on them or around them.
For instance, St. Peter wears a key, James has a saw, etc.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 25, 2025 10:05 AM (n9ltV)
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Then there's Saint Andrew.
Poor Saint Andrew.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 10:06 AM (+HNx/)
That name has so much more flair than just calling him "Greg", which would be closer to the Spanish for 'Greek'.
Posted by: t-bird at December 25, 2025 10:07 AM (OjdEO)
Posted by: muldoon at December 25, 2025 10:08 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 25, 2025 10:09 AM (Riz8t)
Eve?
/The other Magus
Posted by: muldoon at December 25, 2025 10:09 AM (/iMjX)
It’s a delight to do Christmas 2.0 with you all!
The Horde - the gift that keeps on giving.
Posted by: RI Red at December 25, 2025 10:10 AM (fJiXH)
The eyes followed you around the room.
(the ones on the plate)
https://tinyurl.com/bcy4f4mr
Posted by: barbarausa at December 25, 2025 10:12 AM (enw9G)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 10:12 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at December 25, 2025 10:14 AM (qbLEp)
Saw his works in the Prado and they are yuge.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 10:14 AM (kpS4V)
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Then there's Saint Andrew.
Poor Saint Andrew.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 10:06 AM (+HNx
The months running up to the mid-term elections might be a good time to reread Fox’s Book Of Martyrs.
Posted by: Eromero at December 25, 2025 10:15 AM (Slgjz)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 25, 2025 10:15 AM (fIo92)
Posted by: It's in the song at December 25, 2025 10:15 AM (2Ez/1)
Poor Saint Andrew.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 10:06 AM (+HNx/)
Better than St Bartholomew. He's either carrying a flensing knife or his skin. Or both.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 10:16 AM (xMGre)
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That's nuffink. Ever seen the Mona Ogg? The teeth follow you around the room.
Posted by: Constable "Nobby" Nobbs at December 25, 2025 10:16 AM (qbLEp)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 10:14 AM (kpS4V)
He has been described as the first impressionist.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 25, 2025 10:16 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: From that other song at December 25, 2025 10:17 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2025 10:17 AM (Xu8xw)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 25, 2025 10:16 AM (n9ltV)
How to win friends and influence others is best in the original Greek.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 10:17 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 25, 2025 10:18 AM (enw9G)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 25, 2025 10:15 AM (fIo92)
Looks like Joseph is in the danger zone.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 25, 2025 10:19 AM (wVcYX)
*obligatory Tolkien ref.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 10:19 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2025 10:20 AM (Xu8xw)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 10:20 AM (7JH4o)
Posted by: All Hail Eris,
*********
For once I should have bet the 'over'.
Posted by: muldoon at December 25, 2025 10:20 AM (/iMjX)
Merry Christmas!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2025 10:21 AM (Xu8xw)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 10:20 AM (7JH4o)
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Fun fact: he survived being shot full of arrows. Later assassins chose the simpler method of clubbing him to death.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 10:21 AM (qbLEp)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025 10:22 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 10:22 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Joseph the accountant at December 25, 2025 10:22 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 25, 2025 10:18 AM (enw9G)
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It's tiny and behind bulletproof glass. The crowd is five people deep. What a weird experience.
Usually seeing paintings "in the flesh" is a mind-blowing experience. The colors, man! But the Mona Lisa is the one exception where you can get more from a good reproduction in a book.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 10:22 AM (kpS4V)
I am so glad they did! Merry Christmas!
Posted by: barbarausa at December 25, 2025 10:22 AM (enw9G)
https://tinyurl.com/3x2pfd8z
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 25, 2025 10:22 AM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 10:23 AM (kpS4V)
I am expert at changing a diaper.
Posted by: Dr. Jill, Whore and Homewrecker at December 25, 2025 10:23 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 10:22 AM (Ia/+0)
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Dunno. I'd wager it's already undergone restoration. Incidentally, there are an excellent series of videos on art restoration by Julian Baumgartner, on YouTube
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 10:24 AM (qbLEp)
I was shocked it was so small!
Posted by: barbarausa at December 25, 2025 10:24 AM (enw9G)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 10:25 AM (kpS4V)
I count this as Trump’s biggest troll of the Left.
Have to admit though I don’t think he should have done it.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025 10:25 AM (KDPiq)
Usually seeing paintings "in the flesh" is a mind-blowing experience. The colors, man! But the Mona Lisa is the one exception where you can get more from a good reproduction in a book.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 10:22 AM (kpS4V)
I wonder why there’s so much security?
Posted by: Trust Fund Nepo Babies armed with red paint at December 25, 2025 10:26 AM (fIo92)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)
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I much prefer his "Lady with an Ermine."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 10:27 AM (qbLEp)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 10:27 AM (7JH4o)
It also lists martyrs. At the top of that list is the date 25 December: ‘natus Christus in Betleem Judeae’, the text runs.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 10:27 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Trust Fund Nepo Babies armed with red paint at December 25, 2025 10:26 AM (fIo92)
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It was stolen at least once.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 10:28 AM (qbLEp)
That's just dumb.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 25, 2025 10:28 AM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)
It’s not even close to the best of just Da Vinci paintings.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025 10:28 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Oh, no. Xmas punz at December 25, 2025 10:28 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 10:28 AM (kpS4V)
Let Us Spray - a limerick
Advice from a nursemaid named Ruth
Well renowned for espousing the truth
"When changing a diaper
Employ a windshield wiper
Lest you encounter the Fountain of Youth"
Posted by: muldoon at December 25, 2025 10:29 AM (/iMjX)
Have to admit though I don’t think he should have done it.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025 10:25 AM (KDPiq)
The Left is already shrieking about it and has filed a lawsuit to make him take it down.
They considered it their High Holy Temple.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 10:30 AM (7JH4o)
(while I love to look at those fashionably intricately decorated cookies that smack of fine Rosmaling, having eaten one once, I was appalled at how bland, chalky, and awful they tasted with all that decoration designed for painting instead of eating. Same with the elaborate cakes that look JUST LIKE a seashell next to an umbrella drink--structurally amazing, taste like crap)
Daughter gave me an advent calendar where each little window held a tiny single-serving jar of limited edition Bonne Maman, and I've been having some of the weirder ones on a piece of shortbread with tea. Put them out as dippers with jellies, honey, chocolate!
Posted by: barbarausa at December 25, 2025 10:30 AM (enw9G)
Posted by: Bulg
We're sitting right here.
Posted by: Dogs playing poker at December 25, 2025 10:30 AM (2Ez/1)
WISE MAN #3: It is a valuable balm.
BRIAN'S MUM: A balm? What are you giving him a balm for? It might bite him. That's a dangerous animal. Quick! Throw it in the trough.
WISE MAN #1: No, it isn't.
BRIAN'S MUM: Yes, it is. It's great, big mmm...
WISE MAN #3: No, no, no. It is an ointment.
>>>
BRIAN'S MUM: Er, well, um, if you're dropping by again, do pop in. Heh. And thanks a lot for the gold and frankincense, er, but don't worry too much about the myrrh next time. All right? Heh. Thank you! Good-bye!
Well, weren't they nice? Hmm. Out of their bloody minds, but still.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 25, 2025 10:30 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 25, 2025 10:30 AM (4tmpE)
Posted by: davidt at December 25, 2025 10:30 AM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 10:31 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 10:32 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 25, 2025 10:32 AM (enw9G)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 10:32 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Rich Little at December 25, 2025 10:33 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: t-bird at December 25, 2025
***
I went to high school with a guy with the last name of "Griego." At the time I had no idea -- despite my Spanish classes -- that it meant "Greek."
(Years later, his son came to work at the undergrad admissions office of the college where I worked.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 10:33 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025 10:34 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: davidt
Some say that one can tell from the brush strokes that the weeny tuck was crushing.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 10:34 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 10:34 AM (kpS4V)
grandgirl is on the way over to do shapes here, to take to other grandparents for Christmas dinner.
She is NEVER cookied out, but she's seven, so...
Posted by: barbarausa at December 25, 2025 10:34 AM (enw9G)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 10:35 AM (sjyPY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025 10:35 AM (2GVsD)
************
"I would travel all the way to Europe to view this if it weren't such a long fur piece..."
Posted by: muldoon at December 25, 2025 10:35 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 10:34 AM (kpS4V)
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You missed his "Topless Lady Bullfighters on Black Velvet" series, then.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 10:35 AM (qbLEp)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 10:35 AM (sjyPY)
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I think it's pretty much always Muldoon ftw.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 10:36 AM (qbLEp)
Sorry you didn't win the Powerball.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 10:36 AM (kpS4V)
The chiro will handle me:
He'll pop my back
And my neck will crack
Between C2 and C3. . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 10:37 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 10:35 AM (qbLEp)
“If not for them this would be my nation’s flag already, but they stand in the way, they stand in the way!!!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 10:38 AM (7JH4o)
Posted by: Dogs playing poker at December 25, 2025 10:30 AM (2Ez/1)
Don't go disparaging great artwork like that. Next you'll be telling us that the "Hang in there" kitty is gauche.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 10:38 AM (sjyPY)
Posted by: Neilia Hunter Biden From Beyond at December 25, 2025 10:39 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 10:43 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 25, 2025 10:44 AM (aKFQr)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 10:46 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 10:46 AM (OWovX)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2025 10:47 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at December 25, 2025 10:47 AM (XbNmU)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025 10:47 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Earplugs? Nod alot?
Posted by: Endeavour To Persevere at December 25, 2025 10:48 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 10:48 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Have you taken it in to your local store's Apple Genius?
Posted by: t-bird at December 25, 2025 10:49 AM (OjdEO)
Guess you didn't win the building funds for your secret island base either.
Friend gifted me a kit with the offer, "if you don't like it, I can swap it out for a Luftwaffe bomber."
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025 10:50 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Bulg
We're sitting right here.
Posted by: Dogs playing poker at December 25, 2025 10:30 AM (2Ez/1)
I saw a video the other day, ranking the Top 50 paintings of all time. No secret which one ended up #1, but the dogs painting was on the list, somewhere in the 20s, I think.
Ranking these things is silly. Personally, I think some of the more famous artists are way overrated.
Oddly, there wasn't a single Picasso on the list.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 25, 2025 10:50 AM (Fju+s)
Posted by: Herod at December 25, 2025 10:50 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: GWB at December 25, 2025 10:50 AM (Sq0bO)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025
***
It's set in a stable in Wyoming, with three cowboys and a roped calf around the manger?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 10:50 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Herod at December 25, 2025 10:50 AM (XeU6L)
You better stop, Herod, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going round.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 25, 2025 10:52 AM (Fju+s)
Posted by: GWB
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Chiaroscuro
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 10:53 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Three Wise Men at December 25, 2025 10:54 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 10:50 AM (wzUl9)
Heh. Actually close.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025 10:54 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: GWB at December 25, 2025 10:50 AM (Sq0bO)
Sometimes the digital copies that show up online get the color and brightness wrong.
Not sure if that's the case here.
Or if someone got hold of it after it was done, and plopped the lounging cat in there.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 25, 2025 10:54 AM (Fju+s)
Be safe today.
Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at December 25, 2025 10:47 AM (XbNmU)
Anyone read any Julian May? I picked up a book and finished only to find out it was a backstory to her main series written towards the end. Lots of time travel so it’s confusing. Is the main Pleistocene part good?
Posted by: banana Dream at December 25, 2025 10:56 AM (fIo92)
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The darkening of old paintings over time is generally due to the organic varnish used, not the paint. And there is also dirt and grime.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 10:56 AM (qbLEp)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025
*
Heh. Actually close.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025
***
The three cowboys are painted to look like the young James Stewart, Henry Fonda, and Audie Murphy, Joseph looks like Van Heflin, and Mary looks like Loretta Young?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 10:56 AM (wzUl9)
Those things will drain your savings with the upkeep.
Posted by: fluffy at December 25, 2025 10:56 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: I'm a GOAT, dammit at December 25, 2025 10:56 AM (m0WlR)
Colonial America.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025 10:57 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 25, 2025 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 25, 2025 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)
Those things will drain your savings with the upkeep.
Posted by: fluffy at December 25, 2025 10:56 AM (AN2gy)
Cliff Clavin trivia tells me that’s where the term White Elephant originated.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025 10:59 AM (KDPiq)
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Christmas at the Eagle's Nest.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 10:59 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 10:59 AM (qbLEp)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
Might be some smoke involved too.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 10:59 AM (/lPRQ)
Luftwaffe nerd, "RLM76!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025 11:00 AM (2GVsD)
Joseph's expression and hand gestures are of a man gazing at a miracle not of his making. The clothing is certainly less pretentious than Mary's. He is a working man, Mary is the daughter of a Temple priest.
Hmmm... Chania, Crete had a thriving Jewish community at the time of El Greco's childhood. I wonder if he decided to change the iconography a bit as a nod to a homeland far away.
Posted by: mrp at December 25, 2025 11:00 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 10:56 AM (qbLEp)
Wrong!
It was the Dark Ages. Everything was darker.
That's why baseball wasn't invented yet.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 25, 2025 11:00 AM (KwCuT)
LOUNGING CAT???!!!!
Posted by: I'm a GOAT, dammit at December 25, 2025 10:56 AM (m0WlR)
Next you'll try to tell me that thing closer to the crib isn't a mountain lion.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 25, 2025 11:01 AM (KwCuT)
That's why baseball wasn't invented yet.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 25, 2025
***
The origin of the term "twi-night double-header"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 11:01 AM (wzUl9)
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In the version CBD first posted, her gown was nearly crimson in color.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 11:01 AM (qbLEp)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 11:01 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 10:59 AM (/lPRQ)
No, smoke was on the water.
The fire was in the sky.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 25, 2025 11:02 AM (KwCuT)
Posted by: mrp at December 25, 2025 11:04 AM (rj6Yv)
Christmas babe.
http://alturl.com/5hvwv
And nood.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
Santa gonna get himself some cookies!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 25, 2025 11:04 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025 11:05 AM (2GVsD)
The fire was in the sky.
Posted by: BurtTC
Sorry. My fault entirely.
Posted by: Some Stupid W/a Flare Gun at December 25, 2025 11:05 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: dantesed at December 25, 2025 09:44 AM (Oy/m2)
-- They only did that because they needed something to indicate their contributions to civilization.
Posted by: vvivi at December 25, 2025 11:10 AM (cpunl)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 25, 2025 11:11 AM (XV/Pl)
https://tinyurl.com/5hdx5y4y
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 25, 2025 11:11 AM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Dr_No at December 25, 2025 11:20 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Zumkopf at December 25, 2025 12:57 PM (LcYfz)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 25, 2025 02:05 PM (FLiOE)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 25, 2025 04:14 PM (FLiOE)
The Morning Report — 12/25/25
President Donald Trump sent Christmas wishes to all Americans on Christmas Eve, singling out the “Radical Left Scum” as recipients.Far be it for me to criticize the President for his language insofar as anyone who has read this column or listened to the podcast know (latest episode linked here and in the sidebar as well as at the usual outlets listed at the end of this post)... that I certainly don't mince words about my feelings for those on the Left end of the spectrum. And considering this is Christmas, though I'm not Christian, I will go so far as to reiterate my wishes for Democrat/Leftists: May the Good Lord in Heaven open their hearts and minds so that they may at long last recognize the evil that has infected them, so they can repent, seek forgiveness and preserve their souls from eternal damnation. Amen. But that said, I give you this radioactive madness to underscore my utter detestation of them:
“How the far right stole Christmas,” authored by Rome correspondent Hannah Roberts. Politico Frames European Christmas Celebrations as ‘Far-Right Spectacle’Translation: We have orgasms when Muslims slaughter Christians anytime anywhere and especially at Christmas markets! These are the same bastards who claim Jesus Christ to have been a some sort of negroid Palestinian mulatto and that every wetback who crosses the Rio Grande is akin to Mary and Joseph fleeing persecution, etc. ad nauseam. And that putting up nativity scenes in schools is a crime against humanity while transsexualism and other perversions in he schools are healthy and wholesome. Meh, I could go on for days but as I said, it's Christmas and better to keep it light. Oh well, I failed. Apologies for micturating in your Christmas morning corn flakes. Mr. President, you are so right, the Left are SCUM. Other than that, quite a good essay from John Stossel that somehow needs to be drummed into the hollow heads of our youth who are all hot and horny for socialism.
If you're hitting the road, safe travels, especially in the norhteast. Again, Merry Christmas and God bless you all. And lastly, a quick shout-out and a huge thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
- The areas likely to see most snow are southeastern New York and northeastern Pennsylvania.
Snow, Ice, And Flooding Threaten Christmas Travel Across U.S. - John Stossel: People criticize capitalism. As a recent Axios-Generation poll found, “College students prefer socialism to capitalism.” Why? Because they believe absurd myths: Like the claim that the Soviet Union “wasn’t real socialism.” Socialism guru Noam Chomsky tells students that.
Bless our billionaires — the wealth they create makes us ALL richer
- CHRISTMAS 2025
- As A Charlie Brown Christmas celebrates its 60th anniversary, the increasing secularization of American society means fewer people than ever understand the meaning of the holiday.
Secularized America Needs A Charlie Brown Christmas Now More Than Ever
- But let’s not reduce the real meaning of Christmas to decorations and manger scenes on the lawn. It is far more than that.
The meaning of Christmas is simple — yet so hard for modern minds to grasp - Our signature strength is that we are an optimistic people.
Christmas: The Time for Hope - Reading the Bible not for faith but for understanding revealed a radically humane, subversive story that explains who we are, who we’ve been, and who we still hope to become.
The Good Book Is Great
- No wonder wise men, including many of our Founding Fathers, have affirmed this incredible claim.
The Baby in the Manger Was Divine
- It is a story most of us could tell from memory, shaped as much by hymn and pageant as by Scripture itself. The images are familiar and comforting: a holy family alone in the cold, a quiet night, a humble beginning. It's also not accurate.
The ‘Inn’ That Wasn’t an Inn: Reading the Christmas Story Carefully
- They hate Christianity. So of course they hate Christmas.
Cruel Yule - While Americans are ready to forget the Greatest Generation, in towns across Europe, they cherish the memory of the men who fought to save Europe in December 1944.
In Parts Of Europe, Many Still Remember America’s Greatness, Especially At Christmas
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION - "Although she never served as a firefighter, she's confident that won't matter."
Mamdani Appoints NYC’s First Lesbian Fire Commissioner "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS - D.C. District Judge Beryl Howell upheld President Donald Trump’s authority to slap a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications, according to court documents. The ruling marks the latest action against a visa program adored by big business, but long accused of displacing American workers, particularly those in the tech industry. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: New Trump Admin Rules To Weed Out Migrants Defrauding Domestic Abuse Benefits)
Obama Judge Hands Trump Victory In Battle Against H-1B Pipeline
- These are some bad hombres.
Here Are The Illegal Immigrants Who Made The Naughty List This Year
- New York Attorney General Letitia James celebrated Tuesday's ruling, arguing that the state law promotes safety.
Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Effort To Stop New York From Giving Illegal Immigrants Driver’s Licenses - It’s Americans’ ‘duty to prevent any new citizens from coming in until the health of the Republic can be restored and those new citizens can be properly assimilated,’ Glenn Ellmers told The Federalist.
It’s Your Civic Duty To Reject The ‘Nation Of Immigrants’ Propaganda You Learned In School WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - The mob shouted “Allahu Akbar” and made anti-Christian remarks while police officers and bystanders observed.
Muslim mob blocks Christians from Christmas worship in Indonesia - . . . Then this happened.
Canada’s Security Chief Met with Muslim Leader to Fight ‘Islamophobia’ - Hundreds of demonstrators in New Delhi demanded justice for the slain man, and accused Bangladesh of not doing enough to protect its Hindu minority.
Protests Break Out in New Delhi After Hindu Man Lynched and Burned in Bangladesh - When is the West going to do what is necessary for self-preservation?
Islam And The West: Time For A Divorce (who gets the kids and who pays the alimony? No it's time for Islam to be eradicated - jjs)
BONDI BEACH CHANUKAH BLOODBATH - "Jews have always been scum ... we don’t want them near us or our family."
Bondi beach copycat suspect found in possession of guns, bomb supplies
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE THE ECONOMY, STUPID - Thus, while recovering from the economic crisis of COVID-19 lockdowns and the Biden junta will take time, already progress is significant.
U.S. Economic Growth Strongly Outpaces Other Nations Despite Tariff Hysteria - Victor Davis Hanson: Clinton won in 1992 by selling a recession that was already over; the lesson for 2026 is simple—ignore real economic gains, and a fake downturn can still decide an election.
Pseudo-Recessions
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - Delaware State Police Colonel William Crotty commented on the murder of the Trooper, saying, “We lost a brother, a son, a best friend, a coach, a husband and a father… His last actions were that of a hero, a hero who saved lives today while sacrificing his own.”
Delaware State Trooper Shot and Killed While Protecting Others Inside DMV - According to Asher's Real-Time Crime Index (RTCI), the United States is on track for the biggest single-year decline in murders ever recorded — a striking reversal after the COVID-era crime surge.
Trump’s Crime-Busting Policies Spark Historic Murder Plunge Nationwide FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - Conservative social media users blasted the left-wing outlet’s Wednesday article, “How the far right stole Christmas,” authored by Rome correspondent Hannah Roberts.
Politico Frames European Christmas Celebrations as ‘Far-Right Spectacle’ (Translation: We have orgasms when Muslims slaughter Christians anytime anywhere and especially at Christmas markets! - jjs) - On Tuesday evening, the U.S. State Department said that it would sanction five Europeans and bar them from travelling to the United States for their role in censoring Americans and American firms.
EU Threatens Retaliation Against U.S. After Ex-Censorship Tsar Breton Sanctioned
- Canada has turned into a cult of death.
Merry Christmas, Canada, while we're still allowed to say it
- The media has become even less credible than the politicians it covers.
Media Escalates CBS News Attacks Into Outright Libel
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - The instructor was removed from teaching duties, the student’s grade was reviewed, and a full-time professor was assigned to the course.
University Fires Trans Instructor for Failing Student Over Biblical Gender Views.
- ACLJ files a federal lawsuit.
Children Forced to View Pornographic ‘Art’ in Class POLITICS - The magnanimous holiday greetings from Trump included a missive directed at those the president said are holding up his agenda.
Trump Wishes Merry Christmas to All, Even ‘Radical Left Scum’
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS - As a result, Israel and the world are a bit safer today.
IDF Kills Hamas Commander Who Was ‘One of the Architects’ of October 7 THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT" - The proposal marks the clearest indication yet of the compromises the Ukrainian leader would be willing to make on the Donbas region, control of which is a major sticking point in peace negotiations.
Zelensky Says Ukraine Open to Demilitarized Economic Free Zone With Russia FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - “American deployment on Venezuelan soil would almost certainly provoke a prolonged and punishing insurgency.”
The Coming Venezuelan Insurgency - The U.S. military has seized two oil tankers in the week since President Donald Trump announced a “blockade” on shipments of sanctioned oil from Venezuela, approached a third, and is currently shadowing a fourth.
Venezuela Slows Down Loading of Oil Tankers as U.S. Cracks Down on Illegal Shipments
- When a man shouts about robbery as he stands in the wreckage of his own house, he doesn't convince anybody. His shouting fades, but the damage he incurred remains. Venezuela's leadership could end isolation tomorrow by restoring elections, freeing opponents, and opening institutions shut down years ago.Until then, cries of extortion sound less like injustice. Just panic.
Venezuela Blames the U.S. for Its Own Ruin - The election is continuing Latin America’s swing to the right, coming just a week after Chile chose the far-right politician José Antonio Kast as its next president. Asfura, of the conservative National Party received 40.27% of the vote in the Nov. 30, edging out four-time candidate Salvador Nasralla of the conservative Liberal Party, who finished with 39.53% of the vote.
Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura declared winner of Honduras’ presidential vote DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS - It may be a good idea not to repeat Afghanistan.
Time to Bring Our Troops Home From Syria - Commercial satellite imagery revealed in June 2021 that China was building an immense field of missile silos near the northwestern city of Yumen, which is south of the Mongolian border. The field covered hundreds of square miles, and boasted 119 construction sites that were identical to China’s existing nuclear missile silos. (Should've nuked the evil bastards in '53 - jjs)
Pentagon Report: China Loads over 100 ICBMs into Missile Silos near Mongolian Border - ...of the USA’s second largest counter-terrorism unit. How might he misuse that resource?
Soon we’ll have a socialist Soros disciple in charge... FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY - Kennedy and his team know that these gender "treatments" will soon have the same reputation as lobotomies.
Poor families and foster children benefit most from the GOP's plan to protect gender-confused kids CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - Christian Toto: 'Knocked Up' director in deep denial about Hollywood's aversion to laughter
Film Threat Schools Judd Apatow on Comedy
- In rejecting the classical idiom (balance, proportion, ornament, civic symbolism), modernist architecture severed itself from a millennia-old dialogue between beauty and function.
The Death of Beauty: Urban Aesthetics and the Rupture of Modernism
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2025 06:40 AM (x0n13)
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Posted by: callsign claymore at December 25, 2025 06:49 AM (2Vgqv)
By the way, Michelle Wu says we can thank Somalia and Somalians for Christmas. Apparently, their religious tolerance is renowned and all-encompassing!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 25, 2025 06:51 AM (fQarn)
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Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 25, 2025 06:53 AM (fQarn)
JJ - thank you for all you do here.
Posted by: CtSpursman at December 25, 2025 06:56 AM (1jbkT)
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Posted by: callsign claymore at December 25, 2025 06:57 AM (2Vgqv)
Good morning, Hordians. Merry Christmas from me, Her Majesty and all the Hounds of Soyara (Diana, Dot, Dutchess, Val, Rosalind, Dan, Sonny, Ruth, Puff, Finn and The Big Dummy).
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2025 06:57 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 06:59 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 06:59 AM (gbOdA)
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Yes, a Merry Christmas even to the unhappy scum on the left.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 25, 2025 06:59 AM (W/2in)
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 25, 2025 06:57 AM (2Vgqv)
Sy Sperling! What a guy.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2025 06:59 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Mick at December 25, 2025 07:01 AM (HFx9z)
POLITICO Europe
@POLITICO Europe
Far-right parties are claiming the festive season as their own, recasting Christmas as a marker of Christian civilization that is under threat and positioning themselves as its last line of defense against a supposedly hostile, secular left.
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Oh, go suck on a lemon, you unhappy leftist scum.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 25, 2025 07:02 AM (W/2in)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 25, 2025 07:02 AM (W/2in)
Cyanide.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2025 07:04 AM (x0n13)
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Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 25, 2025 07:10 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 25, 2025 07:12 AM (ze3R+)
The Apollo 8 message was beautiful. Borman, Lovell and Anders. First to orbit the moon. Those men had guts
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2025 07:12 AM (2vrAX)
1. Social Security - Failed in 86 and revised to fail again in 38 or so. It will now fail in 33.
2. Mediscare - Designed to never cost more than $20 billion. Last year is was $848 B.
3. Obamacare - Designed to penalize non-participants and Cadillac Plans to pay for lower income working people plans. Not really insurance but more of a pay as you go system. Bailed out twice in COVID and Democrats ended that in IRA 2022.
So the smartest, brightest, bestest people in the USA have tried 3 bites at the Socialism Apple and failed miserably 3X.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 07:12 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 25, 2025 07:13 AM (wVcYX)
Thanks JJ for putting up the daily Morning Report
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 07:13 AM (Ia/+0)
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Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 07:18 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Werfwerfer What Werfs Werf at December 25, 2025 07:19 AM (VAajM)
Aww. He took his vibraphone and went home.
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 07:20 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 25, 2025 07:20 AM (tljrc)
And yet (driven by the intense desire to escape poverty and laser-focused hard work) ... I eventually achieved The American Dream (despite my two brothers becoming drug and alcohol abusers).
My Mother Was A Sadly Innocent Saint, too good for my father and especially This World.
I am retiring next year, and my first bucket-list item (plans already made) is a visit to The Holy Land.
My big question before then is: Do I Want To Be Baptized Anew In The Jordan River (at an age considerably beyond 29) by a Messianic Jewish Rabbi?
I've always felt more Old Testament than New Testament, but have to admit that I cry during every episode of "The Chosen."
I will report back in 10 months ... Merry Christmas!
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 25, 2025 07:21 AM (LgsNJ)
Posted by: Werfwerfer What Werfs Werf at December 25, 2025 07:23 AM (VAajM)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez"
Neither did I. We will just have to endeavor to persevere. I don't need my life ruined anyway.
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 07:23 AM (vFG9F)
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Posted by: huerfano at December 25, 2025 07:26 AM (98kQX)
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RFK Jr. will henceforth be known as Robert Francis Trump-Kennedy, Jr.
[h/t The Babylon Bee]
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 25, 2025 07:26 AM (LgsNJ)
Dang, ShainS! What a story. You make me all the more thankful. I wish you an especially Merry Christmas.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 25, 2025 07:26 AM (cxFcK)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 25, 2025 07:27 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 07:25 AM (A0sqA)
Your dad is cool! We also would play touch football in he middle of the street "From Sewer to Sewer!" two manhole covers were the end zones. Pronounced Soo-uh tuh Soo-uh
Ah yes, those were the days....
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2025 07:28 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 25, 2025 07:30 AM (Cjt/F)
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Mazel tov on overcoming your past and not succumbing to it. I think getting baptized would be a fabulous idea but not sure where you might get access to the Jordan river. Maybe go up to Sfat in Galil or just ask Biden's Dog.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 07:30 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 25, 2025 07:30 AM (wVcYX)
/"Hey, we were just playing "Spades" with Killary while the American Ambassador was murdered in Benghazi ...
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 25, 2025 07:32 AM (LgsNJ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 25, 2025 07:32 AM (2vrAX)
Not deep enough if you're in to the whole "full immersion" thing. But, hey, I don't know, nothing says you couldn't just roll around a bit to get both sides, right?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 25, 2025 07:33 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2025 07:33 AM (NwnyJ)
Data Sharing Restrictions: The law limits access to DMV records by federal immigration authorities. Information can only be shared with a court order or warrant.
What about Equal Protection? Equal Rights?
So Illegals have more Rights than citizens.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 07:33 AM (gbOdA)
Regarding A Charlie Brown Christmas: The innocence and joy of that one simple show is something to treasure. And I think there was Divine Intervention when Schulz won the argument to keep Linus's speech in the show.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 25, 2025 07:33 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 25, 2025 07:35 AM (Cjt/F)
SHOOT THEM with spit balls.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 07:37 AM (2ef5s)
He fired me before spring.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 07:37 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: King Edward the Eight at December 25, 2025 07:38 AM (9oFPr)
There were a lot of “firsts” on 8, notably the first time humans had crewed the Saturn V, and I think it was only the third time the design had flew. Grumman was having a lot of technical problems with the lunar module, it was not ready to fly and so the mission planners decided to turn what was intended to be an earth orbit only shakedown mission into YOLO orbit around the Moon.
They made everything as “safe” as it could humanly be, but there are several points in the long daisy-chain of events where there is no backup plan or redundancy and if something goes wrong they would be dead. Maybe a permanent funereal monument orbiting the Sun, or stranded on the Moon.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 25, 2025 07:38 AM (iKvcM)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 25, 2025 07:40 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 07:41 AM (Ia/+0)
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Posted by: Common Tater at December 25, 2025 07:44 AM (eGKtV)
Data Sharing Restrictions: The law limits access to DMV records by federal immigration authorities. Information can only be shared with a court order or warrant.
What about Equal Protection? Equal Rights?
So Illegals have more Rights than citizens.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 07:33 AM (gbOdA)
So the state of NY is directly violating federal law by enabling illegal immigration. Sounds insurrection-y.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 25, 2025 07:47 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 25, 2025 07:44 AM (eGKtV)
Just slightly before my time, as I was born in 1960. I was in grade school during that venue's heyday so no way I could've seen a show by myself.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2025 07:47 AM (x0n13)
POLITICO Europe
@POLITICO Europe
Far-right parties are claiming the festive season as their own, recasting Christmas as a marker of Christian civilization that is under threat and positioning themselves as its last line of defense against a supposedly hostile, secular left.
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Oh, go suck on a lemon, you unhappy leftist scum.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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They sound worried.
Think those Christians in Nigeria found their inner sword and blew up a Mosque.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 07:47 AM (2ef5s)
SHOOT THEM with spit balls.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 07:37 AM (2ef5s)
Might I suggest hosing them down with lard. Really, really, hot lard.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 25, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)
No Chinese food today, but a friend who was going to host a gathering has been frazzled by family members getting sick and by fatigue, so she said screw it, we're going out for shish kabob!
Fine by me.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 07:48 AM (kpS4V)
No Chinese food today, but a friend who was going to host a gathering has been frazzled by family members getting sick and by fatigue, so she said screw it, we're going out for shish kabob!
Fine by me.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2025 07:48 AM (kpS4V)
I took your suggestion from yesterday and went with a blueberry pie for dessert. No sorbet, though. Their palates can stay dirty.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 25, 2025 07:50 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 25, 2025 07:51 AM (8CIFn)
IIRC the Fillmore East morphed into a place called the Palladium by the late 70s. And I did see Cheap Trick open for the Cars there in 1978. When both acts were just breaking. Fan of both.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2025 07:53 AM (x0n13)
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bit of a radio interview with the astronaut when he discover the problem the oxygen tank blowing out.
The interviewer asked a leading question about being nervous. Insulted the rocket man calmly responded, No, I went through the check list.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 07:54 AM (2ef5s)
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Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 25, 2025 07:59 AM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Ghosts Of Christmas Past at December 25, 2025 08:00 AM (R/m4+)
Apollo 8.... It's a miracle that the reading of Genesis by the 3 astronauts even happened, and on Christmas Eve.
RIP Christine Laitin- she was the wife of a journalist that the astronauts tapped for any suggestion on what to say when they were to make their broadcast. And in her tern years had been member of the French Resistance in WWII.
Posted by: Rex B at December 25, 2025 08:00 AM (C9oTe)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 25, 2025 08:02 AM (5Ne9C)
Great news!
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 25, 2025 07:59 AM (+mUZM)
We walk past there every day.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 08:03 AM (A0sqA)
In the 1960s, while living in a notorious house on Lombard Street that she would later claim was cursed, Montandon was a familiar face to San Franciscans. The city knew her under several guises: author, gossip columnist, activist, party girl, friend of the stars and TV personality. As CBS host Jack Hanson once told her, “You’re one of those people who just seems to be famous.”
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 08:06 AM (A0sqA)
NBC News
@NBCNews
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 25, 2025 08:06 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 25, 2025 08:06 AM (iJfKG)
"Not enough!", says my oldest. So in a bit I'll bake some of Betty's dark chocolate fudge brownies.
Good thing sugars and fats don't count today.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 25, 2025 08:06 AM (wVcYX)
"...for unto us a Savior is born..."
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at December 25, 2025 08:07 AM (gxokI)
A group called the “MFers” demanded he set aside a free night, or they would burn down the Fillmore. He did agree to their demands, briefly. All the bums showed up on the Wednesday “freel night and vandalized the place. No more “free” nights.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 25, 2025 08:08 AM (eGKtV)
NBC News
@NBCNews
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 25, 2025 08:06 AM (L/fGl)
That's a shame.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 25, 2025 08:08 AM (mFz+I)
It's funny, he was the one I worried the most about. Turns out, I didn't need to worry at all.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 08:10 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Bay Ridge Refugee Since 1966 at December 25, 2025 08:10 AM (oftw2)
My parents were... concerned. But all ended well.
I ended up seeing quite a few shows in the greater D.C. metro area. I had season tickets at Merriweather Post Pavilion for around 5 concerts a "season" for three years straight. Same two seats. 13th row. Center.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2025 08:10 AM (NwnyJ)
Long lay the world in sin and error pining
'Til He appeared and the soul felt its worth
A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn
These beautiful words, in this order simply HAD to be divinely inspired.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 25, 2025 08:12 AM (wVcYX)
The grand prize has an estimated cash value of $834.9 million, the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever won, according to the lottery.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 08:15 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Just Wondering at December 25, 2025 08:15 AM (2Ez/1)
My parents were... concerned. But all ended well.
>>>
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2025 08:10 AM (NwnyJ)
Ha! Past geographic neighbor! My high school was quite nearby the Capital Center. Largo Sr. High. Go Lions! Next door was the county's high school extension - PG County Community College.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 25, 2025 08:17 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Tie-Dyed Timmy at December 25, 2025 08:17 AM (oftw2)
@NBCNews
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives.
Unfortunately, not int a Road To Damascus sort of way.
Wake me when "changed" becomes "ended" .
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 25, 2025 08:17 AM (a4flb)
of the trees looked striking against the pink and yellow sky!
I even took a picture of the empty Shop Rite Parking lot, because you never see that except at Christmas!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 08:20 AM (+hwtP)
The grand prize has an estimated cash value of $834.9 million, the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever won, according to the lottery.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 08:15 AM (gbOdA)
I can just see Billy Joe Bob and Lurlene staring at their winning Powerball ticket in stupefied wonder.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 25, 2025 08:20 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 25, 2025 08:21 AM (qBdHI)
NEW: Former Rhode Island Democratic mayoral candidate asks cops "you know who I am?" before being arrested for alleged drunk driving
"You guys are gross,' and 'I f***ing can't stand you… "I'm going to get you mother******."
Maria A. Bucci, 51, is former Cranston mayoral candidate and current chair of the city’s Democratic Committee
She was charged with DUI after a traffic stop earlier this month
Bucci told the officers, "What are you going to do, shoot me?"
Court records say officers noted 'severely bloodshot, glassy and watery eyes'
The report stated that Bucci cried out that she had "told her kids if they ever became a cop I'd k*ll them."
She added, "only clowns become cops."
Bucci was charged with a misdemeanor DUI and released on a $1,000 personal recognizance bond
https://is.gd/pz08VM
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 25, 2025 08:21 AM (L/fGl)
Anyhoo... car at dealer garage being checked for damage and key codes being changed. Just notified that car is ready for pickup. About $160 to recode the key FOBs.
Day wasted.
So... Horde crowding: what's the best practical way to provide additional protection for your car? Nothing convoluted, as Mrs. BD needs to be able to handle this, too. Thanks.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 25, 2025 08:22 AM (rOu8D)
I'm exhausted.
We spent Christmas Eve celebrating Christmas.
Today will be spent going to church in a few hours,
opening some more presents and then chilling and watching Christmas movies.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 25, 2025 08:23 AM (NpAcC)
Hidden kill switch that turns off the fuel pump.
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 08:24 AM (vFG9F)
So Illegals have more Rights than citizens.
Illegals aren't "subject to the jurisdiction" says the 14th Amendment.
That is why they aren't subjected to the inhumane laws, regulations, mandates and abuses of the prevailing authorities as "citizens".
An example is that you are denied a job, income, mobility, the ability to trade, education and medical care if you were an American citizens who didn't receive the Jab or wear a mask.
OTOH, tens of millions of foreigners were allowed to keep their God given civil rights and had no impediments forced upon them.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 25, 2025 08:24 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 08:25 AM (vFG9F)
Far-right parties are claiming the festive season as their own, recasting Christmas as a marker of Christian civilization that is under threat and positioning themselves as its last line of defense against a supposedly hostile, secular left.
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"Supposedly" hostile, secular left. Why are they supposedly, but the far right doesn't get such a distinction. I'm way past 'up to here' with the vile media.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 25, 2025 08:25 AM (qBdHI)
It's going to be Haydn this morning for present opening, I think....
Posted by: Huck Follywood
Radom question:
Was Haydn Sikh?
Posted by: muldoon at December 25, 2025 08:26 AM (/iMjX)
Consider a steering wheel stick it is both a visible and physical barrier. Kind of a pain.
We had our Camaro stolen when we lived jn Sacramento and it was found stripped in the ghetto 1 day later.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 08:27 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 25, 2025 08:28 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 25, 2025 08:22 AM (rOu8D)
Sorry you went through that and the out of pocket expense.
Own and drive a hoopty instead? I see The Club and a fuel pump switch have already been mentioned.
Time was you could simply pull off and pocket the wire from the ignition coil to the distributor cap. Alas!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 25, 2025 08:29 AM (wVcYX)
Consider a steering wheel stick it is both a visible and physical barrier. Kind of a pain.
We had our Camaro stolen when we lived jn Sacramento and it was found stripped in the ghetto 1 day later.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 08:27 AM (9ipOP)
In the ghetto.
Posted by: dead elvis at December 25, 2025 08:30 AM (GGeTC)
It should be a very nice Christmas. I expect some football and boardgame play to fill the rest of the day.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 25, 2025 08:30 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 25, 2025 08:31 AM (h7ZuX)
I had a friend who left his home and car unlocked despite a sketchy neighborhood. His strategery? Don't own anything anyone would want to steal.
Everything else is a Cat & Mouse game where people who want to keep their valuables are changing tactics and the criminal element keeps picking up new counter-measures.
Of course, you can spend money, like garaging it, paying for security. etc. Those are just physical impediments that slow a determined thief.
Everything can be stolen. As another friend observed, they will steal it. If you nail it down, they will pry out the nails and steal it.
So the wisdom of the campers in bear country where one sleeps with his track shoes on comes in to play.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 25, 2025 08:31 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Mad Max at December 25, 2025 08:32 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 25, 2025 08:22 AM (rOu8D)
AI had ideas...
To keep your car from being stolen, use a layered approach with products like steering wheel locks (The Club, Tevlaphee) for visual deterrence, Faraday bags (Ticonn) for key fob signal blocking, immobilizers (aftermarket or built-in) to cut fuel/power, and GPS trackers (Vyncs) for recovery, plus common sense habits like locking doors and parking smart. Etching your VIN on windows adds another layer, making parts harder to sell.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 25, 2025 08:32 AM (tOcjL)
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There was a time, long ago, when Christians were feared. They were on something of a holy crusade, you might say.
The hostile, secular left might want to recall that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2025 08:33 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: r hennigantx
I can just see Billy Joe Bob and Lurlene staring at their winning Powerball ticket in stupefied wonder.
Posted by: Count de Monet
In a few month there will be even more trash in the front yard and on the porch.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 08:34 AM (cYBz/)
Merry Christmas. Santa must have really enjoyed those cookies.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 25, 2025 08:34 AM (a4flb)
AI has obviously never lived in Atlanta where residents leave their car doors unlocked so the windows don't get broken.
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 08:35 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: FD With No Hoses! at December 25, 2025 08:35 AM (oftw2)
I voted for this! I hope Hallmark is paying attention- this is how it's done.
Posted by: t-bird at December 25, 2025 08:36 AM (OjdEO)
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 08:36 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 25, 2025 08:22 AM (rOu8D)
There are relays that have kill switches. So replace the Relay (say starter) with the kill switch relay and run a wire with a switch. Hide the switch under the seat, console, etc.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 08:37 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 08:37 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 08:38 AM (Ia/+0)
A few centuries ago, the Puritans and their spawn for a number of generations banned the spectacle of Christmas under the Regulatory Principle of observing only those things that the Scriptures specified.
That is, the annual celebration of Christ's birth isn't Scriptural so therefore they yeeted that from their society.
Which is just as well, a pedant would observe Christ's incarnation on September 11th.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 25, 2025 08:38 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 25, 2025 08:39 AM (s0JqF)
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 08:39 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 25, 2025 08:40 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Tonypete
And better quality cars up on cinderblocks.
Posted by: Posting From Sofa On Porch at December 25, 2025 08:42 AM (oftw2)
In my fleet, one of the cars requires biometric confirmation before moving. (yes, there is a valet mode)
The others are cars no one would want to steal, let alone be seen sitting in.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 25, 2025 08:43 AM (a4flb)
One could keep a German Shepherd in the car while its unattended in a parking lot
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 08:44 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 25, 2025 08:44 AM (UEQyT)
One could keep a German Shepherd in the car while its unattended in a parking lot
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 08:44 AM (Ia/+0)
trunk monkey
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 08:45 AM (gbOdA)
German Shepherd.
Posted by: t-bird at December 25, 2025 08:45 AM (OjdEO)
Merry Christmas!
Dems are considering another shutdown early next year..
I say "Skin it, skin that smokewagon and see what happens..."
The economy is set to explode like it did under sane American policies in 2018/19 rather than government controlled money supply bullshit that followed it.
I would welcome a shutdown as it never affects our middle class.
Posted by: Danimal28 at December 25, 2025 08:45 AM (mNOhh)
Posted by: Tonypete
And better quality cars up on cinderblocks.
Posted by: Posting From Sofa On Porch at December 25, 2025 08:42 AM (oftw2)
The trailer park neighbors will start noticing the signs of sudden affluence.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 25, 2025 08:45 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 08:46 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 25, 2025 08:45 AM (wVcYX)
Name brand aluminum foil on the windows
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 08:46 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: RetSgtRN at December 25, 2025 08:47 AM (704pg)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 25, 2025 08:47 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 25, 2025 08:48 AM (8CIFn)
It was the Three Wise Men dressed up as firemen, wasn't it?
Posted by: t-bird at December 25, 2025 08:48 AM (OjdEO)
I deadpanned.... it was reported stolen a month ago. You're just now letting me know? Thanks.
And hung up.
The insurance claim and everything else had already been taken care of. The local cops had our original report and she had a new car. Even back then, D.C. was a shithole.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2025 08:48 AM (NwnyJ)
I voted for this! I hope Hallmark is paying attention- this is how it's done.
Hallmark missed out on AutoPen's "...severe illness and death..." White House Christmas Greeting.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 25, 2025 08:49 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025 08:49 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 25, 2025 08:48 AM (8CIFn)
She's a chunka-chunka burning love.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 25, 2025 08:49 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 08:49 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2025 08:50 AM (QMAsf)
We should be locking up the crooks. Not the Shampoo. This is Civilization 101
Posted by: Common Tater at December 25, 2025 08:50 AM (8DbYW)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 25, 2025 08:52 AM (8DbYW)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 08:52 AM (Ia/+0)
Ah yes, those were the days....
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2025 07:28 AM (x0n13)
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Our endzones were street light poles.
All the cars in the neighborhood hated us because they had to stop and wait for us to finish the current play -- before being allowed to pass.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 25, 2025 08:53 AM (LgsNJ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 08:53 AM (IC093)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 25, 2025 08:48 AM (8CIFn)
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Rear Admiral Levine's Nether-Regions!
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 25, 2025 08:55 AM (LgsNJ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 25, 2025 08:56 AM (77rzZ)
At least she was a firefighter. The NYFD appointee has never fought a fire in her career.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 25, 2025 08:56 AM (Y1sOo)
I once asked one of the therapists how many were amenable. He said, "maybe 15%". I was a carpenter who fixed the damage they caused. Got tired of it after two years.
Posted by: Never Mind The Sex Offender Unit at December 25, 2025 08:57 AM (oftw2)
1. The development of local ordinances that would restrict the purchase of land unless you are a certain minority.
2. The purchase of private land by the state and other non-profits under the guise of agricultural land preservation and only offer leases to certain minority farmers after the purchase.
3. Exclusive leasing of existing state lands to certain minorities.
#3 Sharecroppers and Serfs
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 08:57 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 25, 2025 08:48 AM (8CIFn)
The single most competent person in the US who could be lured to become the NYC fire commissioner just happens to be an overweight lesbian. Who'd have thunk?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 25, 2025 08:57 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 25, 2025 08:56 AM (Y1sOo)
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Yes she had worked her way up
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 08:58 AM (tQ0Wc)
Gavin appointed the first lesbian fire chief 20 years ago.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 08:53 AM (IC093)
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Did the USS Harvey Milk ever get off?
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 25, 2025 08:58 AM (LgsNJ)
2. The purchase of private land by the state and other non-profits under the guise of agricultural land preservation and only offer leases to certain minority farmers after the purchase.
3. Exclusive leasing of existing state lands to certain minorities.
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Each of these are facially unconstitutional
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 09:00 AM (tQ0Wc)
Posted by: Tonypete
And better quality cars up on cinderblocks.
Posted by: Posting From Sofa On Porch
The trailer park neighbors will start noticing the signs of sudden affluence.
Posted by: Count de Monet
In my neck of the woods there are county run trash dropoffs all over the place. Free. One can dispose of almost anything.
And yet. . .
There are families that live right across the street from some of these places whose yards are full of years and years of garbage and refuse.
My Dad used to claim 'Hillbilly is not where you are from, it's a state of mind."
True dat.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2025 09:00 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 25, 2025 08:58 AM (LgsNJ)
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As often as possible
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 09:02 AM (tQ0Wc)
Posted by: PabloD at December 25, 2025 09:04 AM (Epuwl)
https://youtu.be/ahe2r5fB5hU
2005 was a simpler time.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 25, 2025 09:04 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 09:04 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: kill 'em all at December 25, 2025 09:05 AM (/w3j2)
My Dad used to claim 'Hillbilly is not where you are from, it's a state of mind."
True dat.
Posted by: Tonypete
It ain't so bad, Tonypete. When it snows, my yard looks as good as your'n.
Posted by: Zeke from down the Holler at December 25, 2025 09:05 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: kill 'em all
Grenades and what-not?
Posted by: MkY at December 25, 2025 09:07 AM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 08:52 AM (Ia/+0)
"Democracy is like a train -- you get off once you reach your destination."
--Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 25, 2025 09:10 AM (9oFPr)
That’s exactly what it is, no question about that.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 25, 2025 09:11 AM (0omqp)
You might be a Redneck if you have ever mowed your yard and found a car...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 25, 2025 09:11 AM (9oFPr)
It is a method to ensure loyalty and compliance. What are they going to do, find another similar job on merit?
Posted by: fluffy at December 25, 2025 09:12 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 25, 2025 09:13 AM (0omqp)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 25, 2025 09:13 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025 09:14 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 25, 2025 09:13 AM (0omqp)
They understand that the electorate gave them power. The electorate is stupid.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 25, 2025 09:15 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Defining Deviancy Down at December 25, 2025 09:15 AM (oftw2)
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Oh yea. To some on the left, any thing they can do to piss off the normals. It's petty. But, consider the source.
They'd hire monkeys if we were pissed off about it and laughing our asses off about it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2025 09:15 AM (NwnyJ)
That’s exactly what it is, no question about that.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 25, 2025 09:11 AM (0omqp)
They just see the business of those businesses differently. They're like Soviet political officers.
Fighting fires has to be done in a way that embodies Marxist-Leninist principles, comrade.
Posted by: gaf gaf at December 25, 2025 09:18 AM (/w3j2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 09:18 AM (xMGre)
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 25, 2025 09:19 AM (b8J4P)
Mary Christmas, ya filthy animaels!
Posted by: Mary Clogenstien of Brattleboro Vermouth at December 25, 2025 09:20 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 25, 2025 09:21 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025 09:23 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Sucker Born Every Minute at December 25, 2025 09:23 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 09:24 AM (qbLEp)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2025 09:23 AM (2GVsD)
The classic neck explosive is both stylish and a good deterrent to others.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 25, 2025 09:25 AM (xMGre)
Posted by: Priorities at December 25, 2025 09:26 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: scampydog at December 25, 2025 09:27 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: CEO, DEI Airlines, Inc. at December 25, 2025 09:28 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 09:29 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Poor, But Proud at December 25, 2025 09:30 AM (oftw2)
ART NOOD
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 09:30 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 25, 2025 09:31 AM (qbLEp)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2025 09:31 AM (T2lRl)
Merry Christmas!!!
Posted by: qmark at December 25, 2025 09:32 AM (R91/8)
That isn't a far right spectacle.
A far right spectacle would be me celebrating while Politico HQ burned down with everyone inside.
I hope they get the distinction some day.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 09:41 AM (fd80v)
Posted by: Inogame at December 25, 2025 09:44 AM (fLcJT)
Besides, the Venezuelans need to run the regime out of town so that there can be no doubt that the people there thoroughly reject the current government. No propaganda against a yankee-installed government for the commies to use.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 25, 2025 09:50 AM (Wv0GD)
'The single most competent person in the US who could be lured to become the NYC fire commissioner just happens to be an overweight lesbian. '
No one that little muzzie appoints will be anything but a political commissar.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 25, 2025 09:52 AM (fd80v)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 25, 2025 09:13 AM (0omqp)
That’s a quote from President Erdogan in Turkey.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 25, 2025 09:54 AM (Wv0GD)
Posted by: Overweight lesbian fire chiefs everywhere at December 25, 2025 09:57 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Flakey Foont at December 25, 2025 10:52 AM (kvDvI)
Translation: We have orgasms when Muslims slaughter Christians anytime anywhere and especially at Christmas markets!
What is it that many have stated? "They don't kill us because we are Nazis, they call us Nazis so they can justify killing us."
I think the same applies here. They don't cancel Christmas and New Year's celebrations because they are "far right spectacle", they call the celebrations "far right spectacle" so they can justify cancelling them. And they cancel them to appease their Muslim conquerers.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2025 10:53 AM (P5BPp)
In Parts Of Europe, Many Still Remember America’s Greatness, Especially At Christmas
People in parts of Europe remember because many of them lived it. Americans forget, because they didn't live it. Other than 09/11/2001 Islamic terrorist attacks, Americans have not experienced war personally on their doorsteps. So it's easy to forget something that no one has experienced.
Always reminds me of this from "Lord of the Rings":
"The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it."
As the older generations pass on, there are fewer and fewer people remaining who remember the past. Even worse is the fact that the left has used their Long March Through the Institutions to propagandize to the younger generations to make sure they don't learn about the past.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2025 11:01 AM (P5BPp)
Mamdani Appoints NYC’s First Lesbian Fire Commissioner
More DEI that will lead to death in NYC, just as it did in Los Angeles with their DEI appointees:
Crowley’s status as the first LGBTQ fire chief appears at the top of her bio on the LAFD site. [. . .] Kristina Kepner, the first lesbian Assistant Chief and a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School for Managing Diverse Organizations, was accused of a domestic violence incident involving her girlfriend. Kristine Larson, who has a degree in Sociology, headed ‘Equity on Fire’, an organization complaining that the LAFD was sexist and racist, was then rewarded with the title of the LAFD’s first lesbian Equity Bureau Chief with a $399,000 salary. Meanwhile, Jamie Brown became the LAFD’s first lesbian Training Commander.
Crowley, Kepner, and Brown were all paramedics, not firefighters. Diversity mandates led to paramedics being referred to as ‘firefighters’ and being promoted to fire captains and battalion chiefs and then to the top echelons of the LAFD.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2025 11:15 AM (P5BPp)
Venezuela is the only Country in Human History to have voluntarily, freely and without pressure, guns or violence of any kind to vote communism into Office through free and fair elections.
They haven't suffered nearly enough, AFAIC.
But I do support violence against the Government. Violence against communists and communism is doing God's work.
Posted by: YosemiteSatchmo at December 25, 2025 12:18 PM (NEFaB)
Bless our billionaires — the wealth they create makes us ALL richer
CHRISTMAS 2025
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At best billionaires are a mixed "blessing", but on average I think they are a net negative on society.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 25, 2025 12:40 PM (Vh9CX)
I also drive a hoopty as was mentioned earlier and am lucky enough to own a garage to park it at night.
Posted by: Some stupid with a flaregun at December 25, 2025 12:55 PM (mx+cg)
Islam And The West: Time For A Divorce (who gets the kids and who pays the alimony? No it's time for Islam to be eradicated - jjs)
Yep. Islam is incompatible with western civilization. With all civilization.
The only place for anyone who wants to practice Islam is in a Muslim country.
Until all non-Muslim nations wake up to that fact, Islam will continue to conquer western civilization.
This is why I do not get excited about anything going on right now. All of it is simply managing the decline of western civilization, including the United States, unless all Muslims are deported from every non-Muslim nation. Unless/until that happens, nothing matters.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2025 01:41 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 25, 2025 02:27 PM (FLiOE)
Posted by: Dagny Taggart at December 25, 2025 02:40 PM (Ywa9B)
Christmas Day Tech News 2025
Top Story
- Merry Christmas everyone!
- Samsung and SK Hynix wish you a Merry Christmas too and announce they have cancelled plans to stop making DDR4 memory. (Notebook Check)
DDR4 is mostly produced on older equipment than DDR5 and was not profitable - particularly with CXMT dumping DDR4 at below cost - so the plan was to refit the factories and switch them to DDR5.
But that's time-consuming and expensive and suddenly DDR4 is profitable again - very much so - so both companies plan to keep producing it at least through 2026.
That won't end the drought, but it helps.
- In other rare positive news, Microsoft says it has no plans to rewrite its codebase in Rust, not Windows or anything else. (Windows Latest)
The article that kicked off this typhoon in a tea cosy was actually talking about a research project investigating the use of AI in such tasks, not any intent to do so for anything in any fixed time frame. But it made none of that clear.
Tech News
- If your video card has been having too easy a time of it Samsung has announced a 6k 165Hz 3D monitor. (Tom's Hardware)
That'll slow the fish down.
It uses eye-tracking to create glasses-free 3D images as long as there's a single viewer.
There's also a non-3D model if you don't need all those dimensions, a 5k 180Hz model that can boost up to 360Hz at 1440p, and a 600Hz 1440p model that can boost up to 1040Hz at 1080p.
We're talking about bat hearing levels of frame rates.
- The LG 4k monitor I favour is now available in a 144Hz model - up from the standard 60Hz - with no other changes.
I might pick one up once I've paid off all the recent purchases.
- The Radeon 780M GPU - found for example in the MinisForum AI X1-255 - loses 30-40% of its performance running in single-channel mode, if, for example, you pulled out half the memory from each of two systems to populate a compatible motherboard.
Even then it is faster than the older Vega 8 found in the Ryzen 7730U.
No reason.
- I was annoyed at datacenters, and then I met the people who oppose them. (Tech Crunch)
They're the usual Black Bloc communist imbeciles.
- How to develop web apps: Test on something that sucks. (Zero Trick Pony)
Specifically an iPhone:If you don't read the rest of this rant, I can sum up my advice as just this: if you're making a web project, even a simple one, do your rapid, many-times-a-day iteration loop testing on an older iPhone as your test mule. Yes this is a pain, because none of us are programming on an iPhone soft keyboard. We're sitting at a computer or laptop, and so that's the platform it's most natural to iterate on. Most frontend tools do not make it easy to have a quick edit-and-reload cycle with a real mobile device. So you'll have to either frequently push to a private web server, or use some exotic ssh tunnel contraption, to get it so that your test mule iPhone can view your test web project.
He then goes on to name names.
This is not because iPhones are good, it's because they're bad. iPhones are more peculiar and less compliant than any other device I tried. I promise that if you get your web project looking good and working smoothly on a crappy iPhone, your residual costs to test and polish on all other platforms and browsers will be fairly low. (For extra bravery, I recommend Firefox iOS instead of Safari, because it is the most buggy, least compliant browser I was able to find. If it works on Firefox iOS it's going to work anywhere. See below.)
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That tape of Unix V4 has been successfully restored by the archivists at the Computer History Museum. (The Register)
And it works. You can download it and run it on your PDP-11 today.
Okay, or a PDP-11 emulator.
-
Why did Waymo robotaxis get stuck during the San Francisco blackout? (Tech Crunch)
With all the street lights out, they phoned home to check if it was safe to proceed.
All of them.
All at once.
- Meanwhile Zoox - owned by Amazon - has issued a recall for 323 of its robotaxis, which is to say all of them, because they drive like illegal immigrants on a CDL issued by California. (Tech Crunch)
Well, not quite that badly. They haven't killed anyone yet.
- How we reduced a 1.5GB database by 99%. (Cardog)
They deleted 99% of the data,
Though to be fair they did realise that 50% of the data was just pre-computed values that could easily be derived from the other data.
The rest they literally just deleted.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: This post is made of 99% post-deleted data.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 25, 2025 04:03 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 25, 2025 04:05 AM (RGk3C)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:06 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:06 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 04:10 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:11 AM (RuTUS)
and Merry Christmas!
Yes, I'm at work in the wee hours of Christmas Morning.
Bah Humbug!! (I need an early 1840s top hat).
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 25, 2025 04:13 AM (aKh6S)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 25, 2025 04:13 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 04:14 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 04:15 AM (nhCoE)
Merry Christmas!
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at December 25, 2025 04:15 AM (WE0m7)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 04:14 AM (dK+Kv)
hahahahaha
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:15 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: mikeski's pet bat at December 25, 2025 04:15 AM (nhCoE)
163 1. How many reindeer does Santa have?
2. Can you name them all?
Posted by: Soothsayer
Ten.
Rudolph, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Olive.
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 08:44 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:17 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:20 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 04:21 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 04:21 AM (2r5ZV)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 04:34 AM (7RYym)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 25, 2025 04:35 AM (C0Nlv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 04:36 AM (7RYym)
Posted by: Fen
22,600% is a pretty good 10-year return, innit?
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 04:36 AM (nhCoE)
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son,
and shall call his name Immanuuel.
Posted by: Kingsman at December 25, 2025 04:39 AM (ehY6c)
Anyone watch Salem Techsperts on You Tube? He's pretty entertaining.
https://tinyurl.com/5drhnhjv
I was able to use an 11" 2011 Macbook Air the other day to read and post on the blog. 2gb of RAM and running AntiX. It works pretty well and it's nicer to use than my iPad. Cost me $37 on Ebay. When I get past the holiday, I plan to start putting thermal paste on these and whatever upgrades I can.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 25, 2025 04:41 AM (+mUZM)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 04:43 AM (7RYym)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 25, 2025 04:44 AM (tljrc)
Thanks for what you do to help keep us safer. I seem to recall you work for the Pentagon?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 04:45 AM (7RYym)
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at December 25, 2025 04:46 AM (caMfM)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 04:50 AM (7RYym)
Have an iPhone because everything else is alphabet.
Don't have firefox because Brave
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 04:50 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 04:52 AM (7RYym)
Posted by: Fen
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INTC has entered the chat.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 04:54 AM (2ef5s)
https://tinyurl.com/3r8manu2
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 04:58 AM (7RYym)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:59 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 05:02 AM (RuTUS)
Insomnia has it's benefits.
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 05:05 AM (2ef5s)
And speaking of Alistair Sim, let me refer you to a film, Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It," in which Sim has a hilarious comic turn playing a Scotsman. It's available on the Internet Archive.
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at December 25, 2025 05:05 AM (caMfM)
Anyone watch Salem Techsperts on You Tube? He's pretty entertaining.
https://tinyurl.com/5drhnhjv
I was able to use an 11" 2011 Macbook Air the other day to read and post on the blog. 2gb of RAM and running AntiX. It works pretty well and it's nicer to use than my iPad. Cost me $37 on Ebay. When I get past the holiday, I plan to start putting thermal paste on these and whatever upgrades I can.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Merry Christmas.
On what are you going to paste and what are the things may I ask?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 05:07 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 25, 2025 05:08 AM (Cjt/F)
Thanks; I'll have to look for that.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 05:08 AM (7RYym)
Border Patrol shoots down Cartel drone.
https://tinyurl.com/3uxcbhuu
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 05:12 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 05:14 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 05:15 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 25, 2025 05:17 AM (aKh6S)
Posted by: fluffy at December 25, 2025 05:18 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 25, 2025 05:21 AM (u82oZ)
https://tinyurl.com/5drhnhjv
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 25, 2025 04:41 AM (+mUZM)
Above my level of techitude, but he seems very engaging:
The $15 Solution to the DDR5 Price Crisis?
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 05:21 AM (RuTUS)
and ace (who gets up at the crack of noon) the most joyous Christmas possible. May it linger in your mind as a golden memory.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 25, 2025 05:24 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 25, 2025 05:25 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere at December 25, 2025 05:26 AM (G+z4C)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 05:27 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 05:28 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 05:34 AM (Ia/+0)
https://tinyurl.com/5drhnhjv
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 25, 2025 04:41 AM (+mUZM)
Above my level of techitude, but he seems very engaging:
The $15 Solution to the DDR5 Price Crisis?
Posted by: m
I'll check that out. I just bought a motherboard that takes laptop memory because those adapters are reported to have problems with DDR5. Let's see how it worked for him...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 25, 2025 05:38 AM (BLOW1)
Just make sure you leave the switch on the cabinet in the "More Magic" position.
https://tinyurl.com/More-Magic
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 25, 2025 05:49 AM (O7YUW)
"Those jokey cryptic filenames in cryptic folders are now enshrined as holy writ, and the people maintaining the systems have forgotten their origins."
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 25, 2025 05:49 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 25, 2025 05:52 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 25, 2025 05:53 AM (Cjt/F)
and so it begins...gotta start the repair project on my daughter's bath tub
in theory, I should be done by lunch time (in theory)
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 25, 2025 06:01 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
Mel & Kim were an 80s British pop duo - sisters, I think. (Second video.)
The first video is Mel Smith and Kim Wilde, but they got it on Mel & Kim's YouTube channel.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 25, 2025 06:02 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 06:04 AM (8Cor4)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 25, 2025 06:06 AM (ESVrU)
https://tinyurl.com/5drhnhjv
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 25, 2025 04:41 AM (+mUZM)
Above my level of techitude, but he seems very engaging:
The $15 Solution to the DDR5 Price Crisis?
Posted by: m
Watched the video. He used SODIMM to DIMM adapters to put 128GB of laptop RAM in a desktop motherboard.
And it worked. At 4400MHz rather than the rated 5600MHz, but it worked.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 25, 2025 06:06 AM (BLOW1)
Or at least, never put up as a musical interlude, that I've seen anyway.
And a very blessed Christmas to all!!!
Posted by: TeeJ at December 25, 2025 06:15 AM (T08Hw)
I got Miss Linda a wooden little jewelry box. She literally handed it to me when we visited a thrift store after T-giving, so buying it was a foregone conclusion. Also two 12-oz. bags of flavored coffee from the local grocery chain -- she likes the stuff with "praline" or other flavors, while I find them cloying after two sips, but okay. No doubt she will pick out some item of jewelry on the 'Net that I can order today or tomorrow.
For me, I still might order that vintage pipe I like. Though that money would be better spent on a second pair of boots, perhaps from Tecovas.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 06:16 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wally at December 25, 2025 06:17 AM (XaT2C)
Anyone watch Salem Techsperts on You Tube? He's pretty entertaining.
https://tinyurl.com/5drhnhjv
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 25, 2025 04:41 AM (+mUZM)
I watched that video the other day when it turned up on my YT recommendations.
That was the same day Pixy mentioned using those adapters for laptop to desktop RAM.
It seems they can work but you have to dial down the speed.
And yeah, he was very entertaining about it.
Linus did a similar video and he had to downclock the RAM, too. That seems to be the only drawback.
Merry Christmas everybody!
Hope yours is wonderful wherever you are.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 25, 2025 06:17 AM (6ydKt)
You can count on me --
Please have blow, and cameltoe,
And big boobs just for me. . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 06:18 AM (wzUl9)
"I'll be stretching for Christmas,
The chiro will handle me,
My back will crack,
And my neck will crack
Between C2 and C3 . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 06:20 AM (wzUl9)
"Later on, we'll perspire --
('Is that A/C? Turn it higher!')
We drive and we grump
O'er potholes and bumps,
Sweating in a sticky swampy land!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 06:21 AM (wzUl9)
You can count on me --
Please have blow. . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 06:18 AM (wzUl9)
... Pixy Misa ... (BLOW1)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 06:24 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 25, 2025 06:26 AM (+mUZM)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025
***
There's nothing like having one's priorities in order!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 06:26 AM (wzUl9)
But geez, 6K (3456p) is a lot of pixels to push.
You’d need a 5090 to run games at native resolution and even that $3000 card would be huffing and wheezing trying to fill the screen.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 25, 2025 06:27 AM (6ydKt)
For some reason, at some point in the past I became no longer able to play a couple of songs the trio recorded in a studio that are in my downloads file.
Used to be I just went to downloads, tapped on em and they'd play. Now I get asked if I want to play em on Spotify or utube. Both say no permission.
I figure it happened when I got the new phone and the files didn't transfer (because not signed in to giggle?) or on one of those things when samsung takes over your phone for a bit to upgrade software or whatever it is.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 25, 2025 06:28 AM (T08Hw)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 06:29 AM (wzUl9)
Somewhere in there I need to wrap her jewelry box gift. If I still have those little stick-on bows, I'll put them on the coffee; they will be tough to wrap even for me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 25, 2025 06:34 AM (wzUl9)
I am the only one up and quite pleased with that.
Posted by: Accomack at December 25, 2025 06:34 AM (8jVAy)
Posted by: fd at December 25, 2025 06:35 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2025 06:41 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Eromero at December 25, 2025 06:42 AM (Slgjz)
https://youtu.be/SDpvDi3rA8s
That should get you started, though you might want to look up a disassembly video for your exact model and year of Macbook pro.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 25, 2025 06:43 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 25, 2025 06:45 AM (+mUZM)
I want to set one up with the correct version of the Mac OS and try that Open Core patch that lets you put the new unsupported OS on.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 25, 2025 06:54 AM (+mUZM)
2 large coffees haven't helped
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 06:55 AM (Ia/+0)
Or at least, never put up as a musical interlude, that I've seen anyway.
And a very blessed Christmas to all!!!
Posted by: TeeJ at December 25, 2025 06:15 AM (T08Hw)
Dunno, TeeJ.
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 06:58 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Accomack at December 25, 2025 07:03 AM (/Chlc)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 25, 2025 07:18 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
----
One of the first things I did after buying my laptop in 2010 was to build a box for a ~4" cooling fan and power it with a wall transformer.
It didn't go on the road but 90% of my usage was at home. If I traveled a lot I would have made a folding box.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 07:26 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:59 AM (RuTUS)
Imagine the looks you'd get if it was.
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 25, 2025 07:43 AM (RGk3C)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:59 AM (RuTUS)
Imagine the looks you'd get if it was.
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 25, 2025 07:43 AM (RGk3C)
I could maybe ... trade them out....
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 07:58 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 25, 2025 04:18 PM (FLiOE)
Christmas Eve Open Thread - December 24, 2025 [Nativity Adjacent Rex]
Good evening Horde. Fa la la la la.
On behalf of the Ace Media Empire, the staff and management and contributors, Der Weihnachtsmann, The Grateful and myself, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)https://bit.ly/the-innkeeper
Posted by: mindful webworker - let it shine, let it shine, let it shine at December 24, 2025 10:00 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 10:00 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 24, 2025 10:00 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 24, 2025 10:01 PM (XSP3T)
Going to look for it.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 10:02 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 24, 2025 10:02 PM (rghSL)
Customers are so persistent and stupid.
Calling over the PA saying registers close at 6pm, 5:52pm guy whining because all the cheap bicycles are sold out, and at 6:05 there is a guy with his two daughters in soft-lines getting clothes, and finally at 6:40pm a woman comes in the door and is shocked we are already closed.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:03 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Arbalest at December 24, 2025 10:03 PM (FlRtG)
If you're solo this holiday season, please check in. If you know someone that is solo, please check on them
colin said he would be alone tonight for the first time
nec is in a hotel room to take her sik doggeh to the vet
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 10:04 PM (WGeqj)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 10:04 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 24, 2025 10:04 PM (A62KL)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 24, 2025 10:04 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 10:04 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:05 PM (nWPIJ)
Not even the Moose Out Front
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:05 PM (nWPIJ)
If you want something a little different, Mark Steyn always posts a one hour “Lessons and Carols” on Christmas Eve. It’s up at steynonline.com. I’m listening to it now.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:05 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 10:06 PM (sjyPY)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:06 PM (yreN9)
One can never be solo when the Horde is at hand.
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at December 24, 2025 10:06 PM (jYat7)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 10:07 PM (aKh6S)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 10:07 PM (cYBz/)
You gonna dress him up for Christmas?
Little hat?
Sweater?
Posted by: Soothsayer
No way! Dude Cat still has all his claws, and they are *razor sharp* as in: you don't know you've been sliced until you notice all the blood...
He's not "cuddly" although he is generally well-behaved. I don't push him. LOL!
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 10:07 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 24, 2025 10:07 PM (S/Y4j)
https://bit.ly/trex-star
Posted by: mindful webworker - jolly hollydaze at December 24, 2025 10:07 PM (uPdbI)
And I still remember our family going to the come-and-go Christmas Eve prayer service at our church, and INSISTING that we pray for our astronauts who were up in space that night (I was all of 8 years old).
My dad - a NASA engineer - was embarrassed, but I didn't care. I wanted to be sure that God was watching over them while they were so far away from home and their loved ones.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 24, 2025 10:08 PM (XSP3T)
Annual Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump’s name installed on Kennedy Center
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 10:08 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:08 PM (2GVsD)
Behold the father is his daughter's son,
The bird that built the nest is hatch'd therein,
The old of years an hour hath not outrun,
Eternal life to live doth now begin,
The word is dumb, the mirth of heaven doth weep,
Might feeble is, and force doth faintly creep.
O dying souls! behold your living spring!
O dazzled eyes! behold your sun of grace!
Dull ears attend what word this word doth bring!
Up, heavy hearts, with joy your joy embrace!
From death, from dark, from deafness, from despairs,
This life, this light, this word, this joy repairs.
- St. Robert Southwell
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 10:08 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2025 10:09 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: mindful webworker - jolly hollydaze at December 24, 2025 10:07 PM
***
Ha! We're a little skiddish with anything that looks like an approaching meteor.
Posted by: TRex - duck and cover dino at December 24, 2025 10:09 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Joyenz at December 24, 2025 10:09 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 24, 2025 10:09 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: tankdemon
*********
Best.Excuse.Ever.
Merry Merry my very creative friend!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 24, 2025 10:09 PM (cCn4/)
I fondly remember midnight Mass when I was very young. They stopped doing it at some point, I don’t remember why. I remember a retired priest performed that Mass, so it may be that he died and was the only one willing to. (Our parish priest was shared among several communities.)
My current church does a midnight Mass (and at midnight) and will be singing carols before Mass. Always nice.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:10 PM (EXyHK)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO7Hs6nzAuE
Posted by: huerfano at December 24, 2025 10:10 PM (98kQX)
https://bit.ly/trex-star
Posted by: mindful webworker - jolly hollydaze at December 24, 2025 10:07 PM (uPdbI)
That's cruel, man. Just plain cruel.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 24, 2025 10:10 PM (A62KL)
Posted by: tankdemon
Heh. Good one.
Wouldn't want the fat man missing the runway.
Posted by: mindful webworker - incandescent, halogen, or LED? at December 24, 2025 10:10 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 10:10 PM (sjyPY)
Annual Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump’s name installed on Kennedy Center
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!
Should put his name on Congress, the SCROTUS bldg and all lessor courts.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 10:11 PM (/lPRQ)
Tomorrow is lamb shops, a nice Cabernet and some NFL.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 24, 2025 10:11 PM (MNCvZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:12 PM (nWPIJ)
"This isn't a basketball game. We aren't playing 'til the final buzzer. Get out!"
Posted by: Last Night's Comedy Piece at December 24, 2025 10:12 PM (gCsmq)
Posted by: tankdemon
*********
Best.Excuse.Ever.
Merry Merry my very creative friend!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 24, 2025 10:09 PM (cCn4/)
When lights fail you can always try the Die Hard 2 method. It's FAA compliant if you're a certified action hero.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 10:12 PM (3uBP9)
------------
Shawn Farash
@Shawn_Farash
TRUMP SINGS: "TIS THE SEASON TO DEPORT 'EM"
https://is.gd/LnXCuk
'Tis the season to deport 'em, FLLLLLLLL
We love ICE and we support 'em, FLLLLLLLL
Send 'em on one-way vacations, FLLLLLLLL
Ramp up those mass deportations, FLLLLLLLL
We've deported millions so far, FLLLLLLLL
Next we'll deport Ilhan Omar, FLLLLLLLL
Look at how those thugs are acting, FLLLLLLLL
Let's send those bad hombres packing, FLLLLLLLL
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 10:13 PM (LgsNJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma
OOooo, she's cute.
Isn't that the gal Oregon Muse regularly featured in his fashion posts?
Posted by: mindful webworker - I miss the chess puzzles at December 24, 2025 10:13 PM (uPdbI)
Merry Christmas to all the Horde from me, Her Majesty and all the Hounds of Soyara.
(Diana, Dot, Dutchess, Val, Rosalind, Dan, Sonny, Puff, Ruth, Finn and The Big Dummy)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 10:13 PM (tgvbd)
So did they. Or some of them did. I read Robert Zimmerman’s Apollo 8 a few weeks ago. That was the Christmas flight around the moon. Most if not all of the families were churchgoers and integrated prayer into their hopes for the safe return of their fathers/husbands.
That was also the famous flight where the astronauts read from Genesis.
Well worth a read.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:13 PM (EXyHK)
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Liminaria has nearly gone extinct since penicillin was discovered.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:13 PM (nWPIJ)
https://tinyurl.com/NightBeforeXmas
AdventCalendar
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 24, 2025 10:13 PM (XSP3T)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:14 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 10:14 PM (LNeRu)
From the Grandfathers, the Grandmothers, and the Youngs
We are now drink the October wine, for this is time of Happy and Celebrationings
Posted by: Official Novdu Informations at December 24, 2025 10:14 PM (f/3mU)
They say you're never really gone if someone remembers you.
Merry Christmas to our not-forgotten friends in 2025: Vic, Jim (SND), Deplorable Jay, Ciampino, WitchDoktor...
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:15 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 10:15 PM (pkeXY)
A very very merry merry Christmas… to you!
And mele kalikimaka to all morons!
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:15 PM (EXyHK)
https://youtu.be/mKScvzJ7CkE?t=377
There are a lot of funny ones here.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 24, 2025 10:15 PM (S/Y4j)
Merry Merry my very creative friend!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 24, 2025 10:09 PM (cCn4/)
Thank you. Merry Christmas.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 10:16 PM (sjyPY)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 10:16 PM (tgvbd)
To all of the Horse who have graduated to the Choir Triumphant, slainte!
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:16 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 10:17 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 24, 2025 10:07 PM (S/Y4j)
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Shoot Greedo first and it will be official.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:17 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Hans Gruber, Jr. at December 24, 2025 10:17 PM (XaT2C)
Merry Christmas to our not-forgotten friends in 2025: Vic, Jim (SND), Deplorable Jay, Ciampino, WitchDoktor...
Posted by: Soothsayer
Amen.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 10:18 PM (c115l)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 10:12 PM (3uBP9)
Then you have to replace the shingles in the new year. Not really in the budget.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 10:18 PM (sjyPY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:18 PM (2GVsD)
Is it Kwanzaa yet?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 10:16 PM (tgvbd)
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Not until you've beat the living shit out of your pregnant girlfriend and jacked a liquor store.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:18 PM (nWPIJ)
Apollo 8 also gave us the seminal Earthrise photo. Taken by Bill Anders.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 10:18 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 10:12 PM (3uBP9)
Saw a meme sayin Die Hard was NOT a Christmas movie... since it was Alan Rickman chasing a guy through a building, it was a Harry Potter movie...
But... that means its also Alan Rickman getting killed by the protagonist, thus Quigley down Under...
And Alan Rickman chasing a guy at Christmas? Costner's Robin Hood? and call off Christmas!
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 10:19 PM (mP0Kj)
I don’t know. I thought “To all of the Horse” had a nice ring to it. Especially ending in “Slainte”.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:19 PM (EXyHK)
Woot! I just got an antique farm radio to play for the first time in probably 70 years or more. It has a nasty hum, because my cobbled-together "A" supply is not filtered well enough, but I heard two stations with just 2 feet of wire for an antenna. So I know the tubes are good, and I didn't make a major screw-up with the wiring.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 10:19 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Beavis at December 24, 2025 10:20 PM (nWPIJ)
Still probably the most-used photo of the Earth.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:20 PM (EXyHK)
When I was a kid somehow the line "that went out a decree from Caesar Augustus" really impressed upon me. Wow, this Caesar Augustus dude is a really big deal. Decreein' the whole world do stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 10:20 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:15 PM
***
Stay tuned. A proper 2025 remembrance post is planned.
Posted by: TRex - lookback dino at December 24, 2025 10:20 PM (cCn4/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WZ1Fe1rsug
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:20 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 10:16 PM (tgvbd)
Amazing how fake bullshit sells.
At least when P.T. Barnum charged you a dime to see "The Great Egress," there was an actual exit.
Posted by: RickZ, Club ONT VIP at December 24, 2025 10:21 PM (gKDq2)
He was a big deal. That’s why only Brian Blessed could play him.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:21 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2025 10:21 PM (XV/Pl)
Wow, this Caesar Augustus dude is a really big deal. Decreein' the whole world do stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 10:20 PM (w6EFb)
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Clean up your room, you little bastard.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 10:22 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:23 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: huerfano at December 24, 2025 10:23 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Mista, they a lot o' them over here
All them folding chairs I put out is full
Posted by: Beloved 101 year old Custodian at December 24, 2025 10:23 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2025 10:24 PM (XV/Pl)
Don't I know it!
https://tinyurl.com/yfkmk248
Posted by: Ea-nasir at December 24, 2025 10:24 PM (A62KL)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 24, 2025 10:24 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at December 24, 2025 10:24 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 10:24 PM (aKh6S)
Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at December 24, 2025 10:25 PM (oftw2)
For the Hobby Thread may want to look at this guy's channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylZ5KPDpvBk
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:25 PM (2GVsD)
Zimmerman captioned the photo (correctly displayed) with the note:
If you turn the book sideways so that the moon’s horizon is on the bottom, the picture will probably then look familiar, as this is how every publisher since 1968 has presented it. At Bill Anders’s home, however, it is framed with the moon’s horizon on the right. “That’s how I took it,” he says. To Anders, floating in zero gravity, the earth wasn’t rising from behind an horizon line (which is how a human living on a planet’s surface would perceive it). Instead, floating in a space capsule seventy miles above the moon, Anders saw himself circling the moon’s equator. The lunar horizon therefore appeared vertical to him, and the earth moved right to left as it came out from behind the moon.”
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:26 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
I decreed MORE, fat!
I think
Jill, don't look at me like that
Posted by: Joey B. at December 24, 2025 10:26 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:15 PM (yreN9)
Yes! Thank you for the reminder. I am alone tonight, be with the Horde in spirit. Speaking of spirits, it's rum time at Peon Manor!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 10:26 PM (npFr7)
The story is a real head-scratcher and is still unfolding. smh.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 10:26 PM (rdVOm)
https://shorturl.at/r2hAQ
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 10:26 PM (ULPxl)
that reminds me...
T-Rex, an idea for a hobby thread for you:
Military Surplus stuff. You know, like those steel Ammo boxes, etc.
I don't have any mil-surplus stuff, but maybe the morons do.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:28 PM (yreN9)
Don't I know it!
https://tinyurl.com/yfkmk248
Posted by: Ea-nasir
Works for us
We basically own Iraq
Posted by: The descdants of Ea-Nasir's lawyer at December 24, 2025 10:28 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 10:29 PM (KDPiq)
For the Hobby Thread may want to look at this guy's channel:
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:25 PM
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Thank you!
Posted by: TRex - milk and cookies dino at December 24, 2025 10:29 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:29 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Of course. I was joking. Looks a lot like her, though.😉
Posted by: mindful webworker - did Tensor read Muse posts? at December 24, 2025 10:30 PM (uPdbI)
I am very blessed that I made it through a year cancer free.
My heart is praying (for what it's worth) for my wonderful Horde friends going through tough times.
I love you all, with all my heart!
I'd like to say thanx so much to our stand-in CoBs❣❣
My prayers so much for TiFW, pookiesgirl, and all Morons having struggles today. Please try and give it your all, and Merry Christmas.
"May the peace of Christ calm every storm in your heart.”
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 10:30 PM (LNeRu)
Posted by: huerfano at December 24, 2025 10:23 PM (98kQX)
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There's about 10 taquerias in the Mission called El Faro
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 10:30 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Weather Or Not at December 24, 2025 10:30 PM (oftw2)
At least not in the general zeitgeist.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2025 10:24 PM (XV/Pl)
Raimondo was quacking about it the other night. But he is more of a poltergeist.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 10:30 PM (npFr7)
25 Luke is my favorite telling of the Christmas story.”
Luke is marvelous. When you read it closely it is obvious that Luke, like a good reporter, interviewed Mary late in her life, as his Gospel is the only one that contains a lot of information that only Mary could have personally known. (Such as the Magnificat and most of the Nativity details) Luke’s Gospel could almost be subtitled “Mary’s Story.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 10:31 PM (7JH4o)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 10:26 PM
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Outstanding. Thank you! Added to the content inventory for next year.
Posted by: TRex - inflatable dino at December 24, 2025 10:31 PM (cCn4/)
JAXA's moon orbiter took some spectacular "Earthrise" videos as well back in 2008.
First, whipping around the lunar south pole, which makes the earth's south pole be on top:
https://is.gd/XxQgkB
And a few months later, from the lunar north pole, with earth thus "right side up":
https://is.gd/evJbXE
The narration there is pretty annoying to me somehow.
Among many other things, that Kaguya probe mapped out the Moon's lumpy, non-spherical gravitational field to high resolution.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 10:31 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:31 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:31 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: The descdent of Ancestors, unaborted at December 24, 2025 10:32 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 10:26 PM (rdVOm)
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The last report I read was he was stuck on a road trip and was calling you for a rescue.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 10:33 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 10:33 PM (7JH4o)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:28 PM (yreN9)
You could do a Hobby Thread on mil-surp gubs alone. Or vehicles alone. I have examples of both.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 10:33 PM (npFr7)
ME🥰
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 10:33 PM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 10:33 PM (ULPxl)
Note the phases of the earth as seen from the Moon are 180 degrees out of phase. When it's a full Moon, it's a "new Earth" and vice versa. To get a full Earthrise like that, it has to be during a new Moon, with the Sun right behind the camera looking at Erf.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 10:34 PM (w6EFb)
All of you commenters are a gift that keeps giving. Well, except for trolls, lol.
Thank all ya'll, Ace and all the COBs who keep this wonderful place going.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 10:34 PM (3ek7K)
My ex-wife and I put out luminaria a couple of times when we lived in Virginia. Most of our neighborhood did, as well. It was. Pretty and pleasing to see streets and driveways outlined in candlelight.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 24, 2025 10:34 PM (xG4kz)
"May the peace of Christ calm every storm in your heart.”
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 10:30 PM
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Amen. Well said.
Posted by: TRex - little drummer dino at December 24, 2025 10:34 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 10:34 PM (BI5O2)
I don't do it, misanthropic nonhumanitarian as I am. But nice if you do.
I really should start an NGO to fund it and pay myself a salary.
Just kidding. God bless us, everyone. The Savior is born!
Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 24, 2025 10:34 PM (W4R97)
I’m assuming he’s the lower-right circle that is unattributed.
A meme isn’t a true meme unless it has a serious error somewhere.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:35 PM (EXyHK)
At least not in the general zeitgeist.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Kwaanza people
People who understand the term "Zeitgeist"
A Venn diagram even Kummala could draw
Posted by: Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury at December 24, 2025 10:35 PM (f/3mU)
For the Hobby Thread may want to look at this guy's channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylZ5KPDpvBk
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:25 PM (2GVsD)
I love these advanced models have you put together multiple parts that will never be seen once the model is complete. It's more than just having something to display.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 10:35 PM (KDPiq)
Dec. is a very volatile pressure month (all of winter usually is). Put that in monthly mode and look at the graph of the pressure there.
Still haven't beat Dec of 2024. And GSP set a daily high record for Dec. 24th of 75F, beating the old record in 1961 of 71F. Christmas Day record is 78F, set in 1955. It will get close to that.
Of course, I beat all that locally at 79F today. We'll see what it does tomorrow.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 10:36 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Nobody will have what he's having
Posted by: Liability aware bartender at December 24, 2025 10:37 PM (f/3mU)
Military Surplus stuff. You know, like those steel Ammo boxes, etc.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:28 PM
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Could be fun. Thanks for the suggestion.
Posted by: TRex - surplus destroyer dino at December 24, 2025 10:38 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 10:38 PM (7JH4o)
Their 1/32 He 219 Uhu has 63 parts for each engine. There are wing spars. The mechanic's jump seat in the aft fuselage is included, though the chances are maybe 1% anyone will ever see it or the wooden floor back there.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:39 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 10:33 PM
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Mark has no nativity story.
Posted by: TRex - venn diagram dino at December 24, 2025 10:40 PM (cCn4/)
https://shorturl.at/tpS2m
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 10:40 PM (ULPxl)
But, that means I don't know people alone on Christmas. Everyone knows someone and goes somewhere.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 10:40 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 10:41 PM (KDPiq)
ME🥰
Posted by: COMountainMarie
Now see?
We CAN have nice things!
Posted by: banned commenter Imklos at December 24, 2025 10:41 PM (f/3mU)
This Fellow Jesus, Louis Cassels, 1973 — a great small book by a one-time religion editor for UPI. My well-thumbed copy is much yellowed and falling apart, front cover missing. I greatly appreciated his simple reportage of what is known about Jesus.
I see a good-condition copy on ebay for (gulp) $75. I think I'll just do my best to keep my copy together as long and best as I can.
Posted by: mindful webworker - did Tensor read Muse posts? at December 24, 2025 10:41 PM (uPdbI)
=
You should stick around for the 2am brawls?
Posted by: Methos at December 24, 2025 10:41 PM (vSvIl)
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Posted by: mindful webworker - did Tensor read Muse posts? at December 24, 2025 10:41 PM (uPdbI)
Correct, Jesus was born in a plastic stable!
Posted by: Snopes at December 24, 2025 10:42 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 10:33 PM (ULPxl)
His Gospel should be added, immediately.
Posted by: Methos at December 24, 2025 10:43 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: TRex - venn diagram dino at December 24, 2025 10:40 PM (cCn4/)
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Also, the earliest versions of Mark end at the discovery of the empty tomb. There are no post-crucifixion appearances of Jesus.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:44 PM (nWPIJ)
It ain't
Big City boys on their Vespas got no idea
Posted by: Darleen, Marleen, and Charleen, smothered and covered at December 24, 2025 10:44 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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He was 150 miles further away than he originally said-- too far for me to help in-person. Said he'd disconnect the trailer & drive into town for a spare tire. Uhhh... he needed the *whole wheel/tire assembly* as it had come off!
Said he would fix it and continue from ~Twin Falls to Tucson.
That was 2 weeks ago.
Oh, it gets
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 10:44 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: The Eyes of Nostrildamus at December 24, 2025 10:44 PM (oftw2)
Watching It's a Wonderful Life for the hundredth time and it continues to amaze and entertain. It rolls from comedy to pathos and back again.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 24, 2025 10:45 PM (y171U)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 24, 2025 10:45 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2025 10:45 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Piper at December 24, 2025 10:45 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 24, 2025 10:46 PM (5Ne9C)
Posted by: Piper at December 24, 2025 10:45 PM (p4NUW)
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Nice.
Merry Christmas.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:46 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:47 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Timeline of History at December 24, 2025 10:47 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Piper
Was it open?
Posted by: Context required at December 24, 2025 10:47 PM (f/3mU)
Walked through or walked into the front door?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:47
She open my door and walked through. She is here. I had no idea. J flew her in without telling me. I can’t believe it.
Posted by: Piper at December 24, 2025 10:48 PM (p4NUW)
It was in the basement ant it looked like a fireplace.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:48 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:49 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 10:49 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Piper at December 24, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Piper at December 24, 2025 10:45 PM (p4NUW)
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Nice. Have you performed a hunger and nutrition assessment?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 10:50 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 10:50 PM (aKh6S)
We did Christmas different this year.
We live four blocks from our son, daughter-in-law and four grandchildren, ages 3 to 11.
They all came here today and we cooked them a huge brunch, opened presents and had a great time.
We have a very long hall in the middle of our house and the grandkids bring their roller skates and skate most of the time they're here.
This worked out because we wanted them all to enjoy Christmas day, staying in their pjs all day, not having to cook a big meal tomorrow.
Hubby and I actually enjoy Christmas Eve more than the big day.
Tomorrow they can enjoy their day without having to have the stress of cooking a huge meal. We sent them home with lots of already prepared food.
Enjoy your day and do whatever makes you happy, even if doesn't conform to the norm that people expect.
We watched/listened to beautiful music and it was great.
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 10:50 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 10:50 PM (aKh6S)
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Weird.
Posted by: George Foreman at December 24, 2025 10:51 PM (nWPIJ)
Watching It's a Wonderful Life for the hundredth time and it continues to amaze and entertain. It rolls from comedy to pathos and back again.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 24, 2025 10:45 PM (y171
My favorite part is when they show the newspaper headline ,
HARRY BAILEY WINS THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR.
The reason is back in the day the horde would always complain when the news or someone would say win or Congressional. The admonition was that you are awarded . You do not win it and that it's just the Medal of Honor not Congressional MoH.
So every time I watch It's a Wonderful Life I think of aos and its personality.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 10:51 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:49 PM (2GVsD)
My big black cat is her cat. He is losing his kitty mind that she is here. He came RUNNING when he heard her voice.
Posted by: Piper at December 24, 2025 10:51 PM (p4NUW)
Going to look for it.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 10:02 PM (cYBz/)
Ah, nothing like Jews pretending to be Nazis while singing a Christian song.
Only in America.
Merry Christmas, everybody!
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 10:51 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: TRex - venn diagram dino at December 24, 2025 10:40 PM (cCn4/)
Biblical scholars believe Mark was the first written (probably by John Mark, mentioned in Acts) and it was very simple and brief. (And the original ending is missing, which is why it ends abruptly). Mark contains much which appears to have come from Peter personally.
Matthew took this framework and built on it, adding much of importance to Jewish Christians, many references to older scriptures, also accounts from Joseph.
Luke takes Marks framework and adds a very personal account from Mary, as well as saying more about Jesus’ relationship to women than any others.
And John is just …. John. Marches to his own cosmic drummer.
Luke
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 10:51 PM (7JH4o)
Posted by: Timeline of History at December 24, 2025 10:47 PM (oftw2)
They were temporally confused back then. None of the calendars had BC or AD on them. And don't get me started about the clocks...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 10:51 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Piper
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Awwww! That is SO AWESOME!
Merry Christmas, indeed!
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 10:52 PM (rdVOm)
I'll catch y'all on the flip side.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 10:52 PM (BI5O2)
We had too much wind and rain for luminaria, but there seem to be gunshots or fireworks nearby tonight.
Posted by: KT at December 24, 2025 10:52 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 24, 2025 10:53 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 10:53 PM (pkeXY)
His sons Herod Antipas, Herod Archelaus and Daryl were nepo-baby hacks.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:54 PM (nWPIJ)
After seeing a 47lb Maine Coon, big black cat though needs further elaboration.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:54 PM (2GVsD)
Often the MoH is confused with the Congressional Gold Medal, which is, yeah, a completely different thing (for one thing, the CGM is a civilian award, and can be given for any meritorious conduct, not just military valor).
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the rough equivalent from the executive branch.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 10:54 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Piper
Oh, no! Was it your favorite door?
Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2025 10:54 PM (gCsmq)
Piper,
What a wonderful gift for you. I know you will enjoy every moment of your daughter's visit.
Merry Christmas to you all!!
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 10:55 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Piper at December 24, 2025 10:45 PM (p4NUW)
Nice!
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 10:55 PM (IG3/x)
I am listening to Tears For Fears, Songs from the Big Chair. This album is nearly flawless. I am on side 2 now (that's a reference to LP or cassette for those under 29). Broken, Head Over Heels and Listen.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 10:55 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 10:50 PM (aKh6S)
Herod The Great was responsible for the slaughter of the innocents.
Herod Antipater was around when Jesus was crucified. Jesus refused to speak to him.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 24, 2025 10:56 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 10:56 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:31 PM (yreN9)
Kwanzaa doesn't have nukes, yet.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 10:56 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:56 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 10:56 PM (LNeRu)
Theories about just what the Star of Bethlehem was are also interesting. Kepler himself worked out there was a rare triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in 7 BC.
There was also a very close conjunction of Venus and Jupiter in 2 BC, never been that close since. But that would've been seen in the West at sunset, not the east.
Chinese astrologers recorded something, either a nova or comet in 5BC. It's thought very unlikely that a comet could be it, since they were considered very bad omens, not good ones, at the time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 10:56 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Piper
Good thing you weren't doing anything freaky...
... right ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 10:56 PM (/lPRQ)
https://tinyurl.com/5n933xpv
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 10:57 PM (sjyPY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:57 PM (2GVsD)
Merry Christmas to all.
And to all, a good night.
Posted by: GWB at December 24, 2025 10:58 PM (97Tsy)
Time Title Duration
22:56:26 Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne 4:02
22:55:07 To Us a Child of Hope Is Born 1:19
22:52:19 Hark! the Herald Angels Sing 2:48
22:48:32 Silent Night 3:48
https://www.fbcradio.org/
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 10:58 PM (XeU6L)
There is some dispute over Herod's death occurring in 4BC. That has become "generally accepted", but there is still doubt. Could have been as late as 1 BC.
I remember a good hypothesis, involving that conjunction of Venus and Jupiter that would put the birth in spring of 2 BC.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 10:58 PM (w6EFb)
I loved the guest appearance of Curt Smith on the TV show Psych .
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 10:58 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Otto Pen at December 24, 2025 10:58 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Piper
Good thing you weren't doing anything freaky...
... right ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 10:56 PM (/lPRQ)
Queue up the Horde jokes about kale dishes...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 10:58 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 24, 2025 10:59 PM (xSYff)
The country Pakistan is as fake as Kwanzaa.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:31 PM (yreN9)
I always snickered when Barky called it "PockyStohn".
Somehow he never called Afghanistan "OffGonnyStohn".
Fake intellectual muddafugga, that Barky.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 10:59 PM (IG3/x)
Just finished watching 3 Godfathers, a 1948 John Ford Western with John Wayne: very much an unusual Western, as three bank robbers find themselves promising a dying woman that they will care for her newborn baby -- in the middle of the AZ desert while a posse is hunting them. Nice stuff.
We had some homemade shortbread cookies and store-bought non-alco eggnog this evening. I walked Miss Linda back to her condo, and now I'm checking in with all of you as the "love light gleams."
I can't help but think back to Christmas Eves when I was young, as I guess we all do at this time of year. It's funny: I can recall what I received as gifts each year from the time I was about seven until I was thirteen. After that? The exact memory is gone. Oh, there are random items -- a topcoat Mrs. Wolfus No. 1 bought for me in about 1978, and a Harris Tweed sport coat No. 2 gave me ca. 1984 -- but most of them are gone. I wonder why that should be. . . .
What are you up to tomorrow?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:00 PM (wzUl9)
Found out days later, that BIL had *left the trailer at that rest area* instead of fixing it!!! Said he didn't mind losing it, was too expensive to fix and had more problems than last time I saw it (and it was pretty bad then), took his stuff out & went back to AZ without it.
So now-- 2 weeks later-- he's driving back to the rest area, because he forgot something, and thinks his trailer will still be there.
I told him to call State Patrol, that trailer was likely impounded by now & he's gonna have major problems.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 11:00 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 11:02 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 10:50 PM (aKh6S)
Herod The Great was responsible for the slaughter of the innocents.
Herod Antipater was around when Jesus was crucified. Jesus refused to speak to him.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 24, 2025
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Which younger Herod was it who knew the future emperor Claudius? I seem to recall it might have been Antipater's son.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:02 PM (wzUl9)
Although that event isn’t corroborated by any other contemporarneous sources, it’s very believable, because it’s known that Herod personally murdered his oldest son and heir, and also murdered his favorite wife. (Which caused him to go pretty mad by the end, wondering why he couldn’t get her back). He set up a secret police force that Stalin could have used as an example.
He was one hell of a murderous bastard.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:02 PM (7JH4o)
Wolfus,
Hubby and had our big day today with the grandkids.
Tomorrow we are going to relax and we are going to grill sausages, burgers and hotdogs.
Merry Christmas to you and Miss Linda and the furry beasts!!
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 11:02 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:57 PM (2GVsD)
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You must have read Arthur C. Clarke's short story about a visit to the burned out planet that was all that was left of the system of a star that went supernova that was seen on Earth as the Star of Bethlehem.
I'm too seized with ennui to look up the title.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:03 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 10:55 PM (0aYVJ)
A One Hit Album wonder. (At least IMO.) There are worse things in life.
Posted by: RickZ, Club ONT VIP at December 24, 2025 11:03 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 11:04 PM (sjyPY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 11:04 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 10:49 PM (0aYVJ)
Your friends are not pulling your leg. A "normal" winter here has just enough snow and ice on the ground now to make getting around miserable. Oh, well:
"Climate is what you expect and weather is what you get."
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 24, 2025 11:04 PM (A62KL)
Herod Agrippa.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 11:04 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: mindful webworker
We are having no room at this location
Posted by: Innkeeper Patel at December 24, 2025 11:04 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:02 PM (7JH
Died with dogs and full of maggots or maybe that was just wishful thinking.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 11:05 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 11:05 PM (2GVsD)
The cross stitch chart I bought on eBay arrived today, so I lugged all of my beading stuff back to the walk in closet in the back bedroom and dragged out my fiber bin to pull out what I needed. I haven't gone through whatever I tossed into the bin when we moved here three years ago and I got many happy surprises. There was all sorts of stuff I thought might have gotten lost in the process of moving. There was also a lot of stuff I'd totally forgotten about. So that was my Christmas present. (We don't give each other presents any more or just something small. We don't have room, not to mention it's too easy to order from Amazon when either of us wants something.)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 24, 2025 11:05 PM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 10:58 PM (KDPiq)
Saw a vidya of him and his daughter playing (I think) Everybody Wants to Rule the World. Kid has talent.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 11:05 PM (0aYVJ)
HARRY BAILEY WINS THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR.
The reason is back in the day the horde would always complain when the news or someone would say win or Congressional. The admonition was that you are awarded . You do not win it and that it's just the Medal of Honor not Congressional MoH.
So every time I watch It's a Wonderful Life I think of aos and its personality.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025
***
Conclusion: The media was no more on the ball in 1946 than they are now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:05 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 11:06 PM (XeU6L)
We are having no room at this location
Posted by: Innkeeper Patel at December 24, 2025 11:04 PM (f/3mU)
Have Ramanujan contact Cantor. He has a solution for that.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 11:06 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:06 PM (nWPIJ)
I'm too seized with ennui to look up the title.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025
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"The Star"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:06 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 11:07 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: browndog sitting in the dark at December 24, 2025 11:07 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:07 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 11:07 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:06 PM (nWPIJ)
Nope, different guy.
Herod Agrippa was Herod the Great's grandson.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 11:07 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Inmklos recalls a story by O. Henry at December 24, 2025 11:08 PM (f/3mU)
You must have read Arthur C. Clarke's short story about a visit to the burned out planet that was all that was left of the system of a star that went supernova that was seen on Earth as the Star of Bethlehem.
I'm too seized with ennui to look up the title.
Posted by: Cicero
It was also a Twilight Zone story in 1985 called The Star.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0734723
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 11:08 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 11:08 PM (2GVsD)
“The Star”. I read it in Isaac Asimov’s Twelve Frights of Christmas. It was probably the worst of a bad bunch. Clarke seemed to think he was presenting a wholly new and frightful view of the Christmas story, but he made no mention of the story of the Holy Innocents, which is a far more immediate frightful and unsettling part of Christmas. Both by its immediacy and the innocence of its victims it dwarfs Clarke’s more natural and more all-encompassing catastrophe.
That his narrator was a Jesuit made his ignorance of Herod’s massacre even more inexcusable, as it made the man’s crisis of faith inexplicable.
“The Nine Billion Names of God” was a far better story.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 11:08 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:08 PM (7JH4o)
Posted by: Methos at December 24, 2025 10:43 PM (vSvIl)
ISWYDT
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 24, 2025 11:09 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 11:11 PM (f5220)
Posted by: pawn at December 24, 2025 11:11 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 11:11 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Timeline of History
Well, I wouldn't want to argue with a Fact!
The year 7BC is right, "some say." I've seen arguments for the month being either in the Spring, or late Summer to early Autumn. Cassels (op cit) reasons from the presence of the shepherds and their flocks: "to this day, Judean shepherds and sheep do [remain outside in the fields overnight], during the warm nights near the end of summer. So… September or early October seems the best guess…."
Posted by: mindful webworker - conjunction of planets in August 7BC at December 24, 2025 11:12 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Great
Now what are we supposed to do with these hair combs and this watch fob?
Posted by: Soft hearted but practical Imklos at December 24, 2025 11:12 PM (f/3mU)
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They couldn't have been Achaemenids since Alexander the Great put paid to that empire in the 4th century BC. Parthians maybe?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:13 PM (nWPIJ)
Just looked that up. It's a theory from astronomer named Craig Chester.
Starting in Sept of 3 BC, there was a rare triple conjunction of Jupiter and the star Regulus -- "king" planet and "king star". 9 months later, June of 2BC, Jupiter then moved into conjunction with Venus. This conjunction was so close they would've appeared as a single bright object in the sky. Now, Jupiter is the king planet, and Venus is love and fertility.
To the astrologers of the time, that would've screamed "birth of a new king"...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 11:13 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Benito Is Right Out, Too at December 24, 2025 11:14 PM (oftw2)
I know some are having a rough time this holiday, missing people, a bad year, lonely. You are in my prayers as God knows you, your heart and loves you.
Never feel loney here as there is always someone who understands and cares.
My back is killing me, I am exhausted, but know I am blessed beyond all measure. Tomorrow we go see our beloved grands an hour or two after a visit from Santa, so am going to bed (again in the guest room as the south wind blows 50mph gusts). Grab those memories tomorrow and relive the good ones.
By dinner tomorrow, after we return here and bake more cookies, I may need a full body cast and be wheeled in, but I'll be there. Can rest on Boxing Day. Advil and a heating pad R Me. Love y'all.
It takes special people to make me snort laugh, and y'all do nearly every night. XXXX
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 24, 2025 11:14 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 24, 2025 11:15 PM (31p00)
It's not too big a stretch to think the headline or article writer was ignorant. Nothing new about that in the media!
Posted by: mindful webworker - did Tensor read Muse posts? at December 24, 2025 11:15 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025
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Brushing and combing, and if necessary scissors to cut the mats out. Most of my cats have not been happy to be brushed, though combing if done right was okay. So at least once in their lives the longhairs have had to be shaved -- the "lion cut" where only their heads, tails, and legs still have fur. They look funny as hell.
You could apply some cornstarch preemptively, to keep the grease down -- the oils that accumulate on the fur from your hands.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:15 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Beverly at December 24, 2025 11:16 PM (reMys)
Little got his first taste of blue crab marinara. Will never forget the look on his face. I told him it's even better when you catch the crabs yourself. We'll make that happen in '26 I'm certain, fresh from the Gulf of America!
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 24, 2025 11:16 PM (nbLIj)
In the ‘36 version, these three are bad hombres - they’re cold blooded killers. But they find a dying woman, and a baby, and their humanity comes back. They each do penance for their wrongs, and find redemption, but ONLY by willingly sacrificing their lives for an innocent, each one in turn. The last one makes it into town by drinking poisoned water, which lets him survive just long enough to take the baby into town and give it to the people there.
The John Wayne version goes soft on the point that true Redemption demands sacrifice.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:17 PM (7JH4o)
Posted by: Benito Is Right Out, Too at December 24, 2025 11:14 PM (oftw2)
No British Kings named Richard after Richard "Dick" III. None named Henry after Henry VIII.
It would not surprise me if the name Benedict took a dive in popularity post-American Revolution.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 11:18 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:08 PM (7JH4o)
If you are interested in the Magi, Antiochus, Nimrut Dag, the conjunction of Regulus and the Moon in Leo, the emblem of the crescent moon and a star, and other speculations on the star that guided the magi, you could look at this article by Ethical Skeptic.
He does have his own agenda, but his actual facts are pretty interesting even short of making any conclusions from them
https://tinyurl.com/4ujsevdz
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 11:18 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Beverly at December 24, 2025
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The most dramatic space flight of them all. Taking everything together, Eight topped Eleven, even with the latter's actual landing on the moon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:18 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 24, 2025 11:15 PM (31p00)
So its true. That permanent record continues to follow us for ever.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 11:18 PM (2WIwB)
BIL is *already* 1/3 of the way back to the rest area. Didn't reply after I asked what he's gonna do if his trailer is no longer there.
Dumbass.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 11:19 PM (rdVOm)
Santa and his crazy critters just landed on my roof!
I don't even have kids...
Now I have a fat guy stuck in my chimney (oh my! is that guy cussin')!
Now I'm going to have to explain my roof damage to insurance...
Jeez....this fat red guy and his 8 (why 8!) damn wanna-be elk...
This will be a pain in my insurance ass...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 11:20 PM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Beverly at December 24, 2025 11:16 PM (reMys)
I was a wee lad then, but I guarantee my Dad and Grandpa heard that. Grandpa was a NASA engineer during the Appollo missions.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 11:20 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Benito Is Right Out, Too
Ahem
Adolph Hitler Uunona rose to international attention in 2020 when news media reported that his full name was Adolf Hitler Uunona, after election to national office in Namibia, formerly German Southwest Africa
Posted by: Fun Facts with Imiklos at December 24, 2025 11:20 PM (f/3mU)
The John Wayne version goes soft on the point that true Redemption demands sacrifice.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025
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Yes; I found it unsatisfying on some level, and you've put your finger on it.
I looked the 1936 version up. Chester Morris, Walter Brennan -- and Sidney ("Charlie Chan") Toler as a character called Professor Snape!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:21 PM (wzUl9)
Adolph Hitler Uunona rose to international attention in 2020 when news media reported that his full name was Adolf Hitler Uunona, after election to national office in Namibia, formerly German Southwest Africa
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Well, Africa.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:22 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:15 PM (wzUl9)
Thank you, his fur is very fine. I trimmed the top off the dreds yesterday and mostly combed them out. He was not amused.
I have to turn it into a gentle roughhouse for him afterwards to be OK with it.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 11:22 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 24, 2025 11:22 PM (NtoJk)
Diogenes,
We were talking about permanent records today with our kids.
They believe, as we do, don't post anything on the internet about your children. They don't "do" facebook and other social media.
Son said with AI children's lives from their first newborn picture and forward there will always be a record on line about their lives.
The world has changed and it's scary.
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 11:22 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 11:23 PM (KDPiq)
Didn't reply after I asked what he's gonna do if his trailer is no longer there.
Dumbass.
Posted by: JQ
Some people are oblivious and wish to remain so.
Some times I wish I was more like that, for the "bliss," and all that.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 11:23 PM (yreN9)
Have a lot to do to get ready for tomorrow so will mostly lurk tonight.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 11:23 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 11:23 PM (2GVsD)
I cannot rest until a problem is solved, or, at the very least, I formulate a Plan to resolve the issue.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 11:24 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 11:24 PM (sjyPY)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 24, 2025 11:24 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:25 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:00 PM (wzUl9)
Because neat and exciting kid's toys were replaced with boring and practical items such as socks, underwear, sweaters, etc.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 24, 2025 11:25 PM (y171U)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025
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I know, right? The guy's BMI is off the charts. He's a coronary looking for a place to happen.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:26 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: tankdemon
Try Viagra
Posted by: Mrs. Santa at December 24, 2025 11:26 PM (f/3mU)
GRIT likes to air lots of Randolph Scott.
Once I heard ol' Randolph was a pickle smoocher, I couldn't un-see it.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 11:26 PM (yreN9)
And yet, he was perfect for Slayer. One of my favorites. Best Slayer was Lombardo Slayer.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 11:26 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2025 10:09 PM (XV/Pl)
Why would anybody need that many Dec 2nd's?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 11:27 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025
Because neat and exciting kid's toys were replaced with boring and practical items such as socks, underwear, sweaters, etc.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 24, 2025
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I do believe you've hit on it. At least since I left home it's been like that. Generally, if I wanted something "exciting," I bought it for myself.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:27 PM (wzUl9)
Some times I wish I was more like that, for the "bliss," and all that.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Yeah. I understand.
This guy is 70yrs old. You'd think he'd have a clue, but no: he's been *chronically dependent* all his adult life.
I'm in no position to be his surrogate mommy and refuse to do so.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 11:28 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 11:28 PM (QVmho)
On one of the President’s NORAD calls, the kid asked him if Santa would take it personally if they didn’t leave out cookies. Trump recommended definitely leaving out the cookies. Don’t know if the kid asked it randomly or if he saw the MAHA video about Santa going with the carrots for Rudolph instead and was worried. It was funny.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 11:28 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 24, 2025 11:28 PM (znREB)
Posted by: Santa Imklos, or else at December 24, 2025 11:28 PM (f/3mU)
I had a link to an online article by a fellow who used computer modeling to verify the conjunction three times in 7BC. Alas the link is dead now. The Internet is not really always Forever as they say.
Oh, wait, wait. Thanks to the wonder of websearch I found it.
https://bit.ly/star-of-wonder
"I have modelled them on a computer, and the one which I favour is a triple conjunction (ie three successive
conjunctions) of Jupiter and Saturn, in 7 BC. At the end of May that year they approached within a degree of
each other – equivalent to about two widths of the moon. This was visible in the east, in the couple of hours
before sunrise. They then separated and joined up again at the beginning of October, again within a degree, this
time visible all night, moving with the stars from east to west. Finally, at the beginning of December, the two
planets approached again just a degree apart, in the south, moving south-west and west during the evening."
Posted by: mindful webworker - did Tensor read Muse posts? at December 24, 2025 11:28 PM (uPdbI)
Exact birthdate doesn't really matter to me
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 11:02 PM (KDPiq)
Yes, and he called himself divine in the NT. No doubt about that. He called himself both the Son of David, and the Father of David.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 24, 2025 11:30 PM (y171U)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 11:11 PM (f5220)
Augustus was mentioned upthread - it’s really fascinating to think about how Rome was involved in this story. Rome had been in a civil war with itself for a century, before that was the war with Carthage, war with the Greeks, wars all over, culminating in the great play for control by Antony and Cleopatra.
Finally, Octavian wins all. For the first time in centuries (maybe ever) there’s peace all around the Mediterranean, there’s a culture with a common language where ideas can spread easily, there’s safety and security where commerce and ideas can grow rapidly.
So Octavian changes his name to Augustus, and what is one of the very first orders he gives? He makes a decree sending Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, and the Christmas story - and the Christian era - begins. As if all that had come before was a preparation for this Advent.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:30 PM (7JH4o)
Posted by: JQ
If "surrogate mommy" means Dr. DOCTOR Jill,
count me out
Posted by: independently living Imklos at December 24, 2025 11:30 PM (f/3mU)
we did not have to have The Talk.
Hell, I had it figured out when I was five. Just play along, get the loot.
I was way more upset to learn what my parents did to get more kids. *shudders*
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 11:31 PM (0aYVJ)
What to I want for Christmas? Peach on Earth Goodwill toward Man.
What will I accept for Christmas?
Venezuela, Cuba, peace and Independence for the Western Hemisphere.
God Bless and let's get it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 11:31 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:06 PM (nWPIJ)
Nope, different guy.
Herod Agrippa was Herod the Great's grandson.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 11:07 PM (IG3/x)
Agrippa was a whole other kind of asshole.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 11:32 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Pug Mahon,
We raised you
And it worked
Posted by: Ma and Pa at December 24, 2025 11:33 PM (f/3mU)
As for me, I have a new pipe tobacco to try, called Old Joe Kranz Blue Label. (Yes, they give pipe tobaccos odd names like that. There is a blend called "Corn Cob Pipe and a Button Nose," and another called "Awakened Elder.") I'm tempted to order an estate (read: "used") pipe on one of the vendor sites, but of course I wouldn't receive it until close to New Year's.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:33 PM (wzUl9)
(grumble, grumble... get banninated to get out of working... grumble, grumble) Neat trick, buddy.
Merry Christmas anyway & good to see you again!
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 11:33 PM (rdVOm)
If you're interested, Stellarium can easily run the sky back to the sky circa Year Zero (1 BC). Download the desktop version to do it. Online and mobile, while nice, don't have the full capability to do this so easily.
Also for full accuracy, download the JPL DE430 or DE440 high precision ephemerides files for Stellarium.
With that you can run the sky back and see all those conjunctions mentioned above.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 11:33 PM (w6EFb)
And there is one other big source of cash for those generals - all of those blue barrel’s in all of those drug boats.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 09:13 PM (7JH4o)
dealing with the money is usually the easy route. Someone is bankrolling Maduro, someone is bankrolling the cartels and someone is bankrolling the ELN. It sure as Hell isn't Cuba and Russia anymore.
Also since there is a lot of money in that oil and in the cocaine being captured and blowed up in the Gulf, some banks are starting to feel the pinch from not having their cut from laundering it, and some governments are starting to really wonder where the money to cover the losses from graft is comin from.
we have been killing people for all my life and it hasn't worked, besides make a lot of people who aren't related to me really rich. I don't think that approach is going to work this time either.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 11:33 PM (rbvCR)
I will never put milk and cookies on my mantel for the fat red one again...
Maybe out in the meadow.
That guy's wrecked my roof too many times...
Is there actually a Santa trap?!
I could do so much with that...money to be made$$$....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 11:34 PM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 11:23 PM (KDPiq)
Poleese dat moostash!!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 11:34 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: tcn in AK
GI Joe with Kung Fu Grip>>>Agrippa
Posted by: Imklosius at December 24, 2025 11:34 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 11:35 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
I can do that with grade school. I can remember every teacher and class except 5th grade. Not one memory.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 11:35 PM (c115l)
Posted by: JQ
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You married his brother not his family.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 11:35 PM (2ef5s)
Chy na.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 11:36 PM (c115l)
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 11:37 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: JQ
I'm waiting for the No Tax on Tips or Overtime to kick in January 1st
The CoB who banned me (again) had no idea how much PTO I had accumulated.
Posted by: Imklos needs some Personal Days at December 24, 2025 11:38 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:08 PM (7JH4o)
Read an interesting piece once suggesting that Daniel taught some members of the Magi of his time about the prophecies of the coming of the Messiah when he was given authority over the king's magicians during his Persian captivity.
Posted by: KT at December 24, 2025 11:38 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 11:38 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 11:38 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 24, 2025 11:39 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:30 PM (7JH4o)
Go farther. God tells Eve she will crush the serpent. She did, when Mary said yes to Gabriel.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 11:39 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025
***
Grade and junior high school, not too bad a problem; not really tough in high school either. Remembering which class was in which period is tougher. After that, college? Fuhgeddaboutit. I can remember certain classes clearly, usually ones with a good-looking graduate student teaching it, but I may or may not recall her name.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:39 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 24, 2025 11:39 PM (nbLIj)
It's almost Christmas Day on eastern time.
Since we moved from eastern time out here to Mountain Time I still get discombulated about the time difference.
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 11:40 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:18 PM (wzUl9)
Yes, and no rescue LEM like Apollo 13. It took big balls to do that.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 24, 2025 11:40 PM (y171U)
What is the possibility we could bomb the living shit out of China?
Posted by: four seasons
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Peking is about 700 miles from the coast of Korea.
It's within cruise missile range. If we wanted to we could mess up Xi's day, incredibly so.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 11:41 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 11:41 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 24, 2025 11:42 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 11:42 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
***
Also funny is that I have neither of those items still. They would still fit me and were good quality; but they both vanished at some point over the ensuing decades.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:42 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 11:43 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 11:43 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025
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True. But they were the first humans to leave Earth orbit, the first to orbit another body of the Solar System, and went farther from Earth -- 250K miles or so -- than anyone had ever gone in history.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:45 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:30 PM (7JH4o)
Go farther. God tells Eve she will crush the serpent. She did, when Mary said yes to Gabriel.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 11:39 PM (6Bc8
That conversation between Mary and Gabriel is why I get upset when I see people on social media referring to Jesus' birth as an "unplanned pregnancy."
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 11:46 PM (sjyPY)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 11:46 PM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:45 PM (wzUl9)
As I recall, it was rather scary and way cool. Pretty much any huge box eventually became a space module. We didn't have live tv yet in AK but we listened on the radio.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 11:47 PM (6Bc88)
Book of Revelations was written, when, 50 years after Jesus?
Those people, back then, probably thought Jesus would Return in their lifetime, yes?
And that became the case for every generation since -- people believing Jesus will return in their lifetime.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 11:47 PM (yreN9)
Apollo 8 did enter lunar orbit, completing 10 lunar orbits.
The forthcoming Artemis II mission, which may launch in Feb. will basically be a repeat of Apollo 8, however it will not enter lunar orbit, just take a far figure 8 free return trajectory. They'll get farther from the Moon than Apollo, and will set the record for greatest distance of humans from earht.
Returning, they will also break the speed record,coming in hotter than any Apollo mission did. Apollo 13, which did use free return, set the previous distance record, and Apollo 10 set the speed record.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 11:47 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 11:24 PM (sjyPY)
I left out some venison jerky and a compound bow and Ted Nugent left me a new rifle.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 11:48 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 11:48 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025
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Yes, and no rescue LEM like Apollo 13. It took big balls to do that.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 24, 2025
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True. No chance of rescue if something had gone wrong.
Plus the flight happened at the end of a particularly tumultuous year in American and world history. In '88, I recall one of the local radio stations running a special series on "1968: A Year Like No Other." Up to that point anyway, '68 really was.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:48 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 11:46 PM (sjyPY)
She said yes. She didn't say, "Grab a condom."
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 11:48 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 11:48 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 11:49 PM (LNeRu)
🎄Heap o' Christmas Videos 2025
https://bit.ly/heap-o-xmas-vids-2025
🎄Heap o' Commercial Christmas Links 2025 (in case you missed the link before)
https://bit.ly/heap-o-xmas-ads-2025
🎄Twelve Days of Madness (as serialized on AOS last year)
https://bit.ly/12-crazy-days
🎄Santa, Dear Friends
For those who may have come to doubt the old elf (text, ill.)
https://bit.ly/santa-dear-friends
🎄Journey to Bethlehem
A simple trip to pay the taxes becomes a life-or-death nightmare for a new family
A cartoon-illustrated take on the Nativity story
https://bit.ly/bethlehem-journey
🎄Mindful Webworkshop Episode #16 - Christmas
A politically incorrect and culturally inappropriate Christmas show - pop song parodies and original tunes sure to put coal in my stocking. From back in 2016. (vid 11:02)
https://bit.ly/webworkshop-016
That should hold you for twelve days.
Posted by: mindful webworker - jingle them bells at December 24, 2025 11:49 PM (uPdbI)
After seeing a 47lb Maine Coon, big black cat though needs further elaboration.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10
He is a Savannah, he is very big. He weighs 25 pounds. But is tall and thin. A 47 pound Maine Coon is a fat Maine Coon!
Posted by: Piper at December 24, 2025 11:49 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Ephemerides? For Stellarium?
They musta learnt you good at the Cow Kollidge
Posted by: Imklos will Just Trust at December 24, 2025 11:51 PM (f/3mU)
Book of Revelations was written, when, 50 years after Jesus?
Those people, back then, probably thought Jesus would Return in their lifetime, yes?
And that became the case for every generation since -- people believing Jesus will return in their lifetime.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 11:47 PM (yreN9)
Letters of Paul were in the '50s. Revelations probably by about 110 or so. Paul believed it would happen in his lifetime but of course that was cut short.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 11:51 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: tankdemon
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"unplanned" by who ?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 11:52 PM (XeU6L)
Genesis 3:15
"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
God is talking to the serpent, though Eve probably overheard it, about Christ, not Eve ('his' specifies a masculine descendant).
Posted by: Methos at December 24, 2025 11:52 PM (vSvIl)
She should reach the GOLA, USA in about six days time
GOLA
Galveston Offshore Lightering Area
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 11:53 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 11:53 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 11:36 PM (c115l)
China is buying the oil, but China is not terribly good at force projection. I think the support was coming from USAID, NED, and the EU. There is noise that Iran is also involved in the chain, and that means it is tied into Hamas and other militias. There have been accusations that Hamas was training in Venezuela.
It is either a rope of sand trying to tie them all together, or it is a house of cards because none of the players have enough money to survive without the cocaine shipments and the oil, and still force some sort of fight.
It is important to identify the problem before trying to solve it. You wind up pushing on doors marked "pull" and figure you have to push harder.
Dry up the funding and half the problem is solved.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 11:53 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 11:54 PM (2ef5s)
They were all, during TLI (trans-lunar injection) placed on a free return trajectory in case the SM engine didn't fire. Once they entered lunar orbit, however, they needed that engine to get out and come back.
Looking it up, the free return trajectory was used up to Apollo 11. This limited the range of landing sites, and for Apollo 12 and later, they used a different trajectory. Apollo 13 had to fire the lunar model descent engine to get back on a good free return path.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 11:54 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: COMountainMarie
I ain't even started on the Christmas Punch yet.
It needs to ferment a bit overnight
Posted by: Merry Imklos, trying to figure out what an Elf Dance would even look like, but trying at December 24, 2025 11:54 PM (f/3mU)
I kept it, replacing the battery each year and putting it on a Speidel Twist-o-Flex bracelet (remember those?) after several leather straps, for many years.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:54 PM (wzUl9)
Ephemerides is the sister of Clitorides.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 11:55 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025
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Tell that to the stranded Chinamen.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 11:55 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Thank you for that, Braenyard. I've helped as much as I'm able, already: physical work on repairs, parts, clothes, food, money...
Still, it's difficult to not feel like a Grinch, especially this time of year, but the man has had many more years *and* many more resources than me, to get his life sorted.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 11:56 PM (rdVOm)
We will keep the ship
_Trump
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Braenyard
All seized tankers should be immediately be renamed "WD-40"
Posted by: Merry Cap'm Imklos, thinking of Cap'n New Dawn Jim at December 24, 2025 11:57 PM (f/3mU)
Merry Christmas, all, and to all a good night!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:57 PM (wzUl9)
Krampus stopped by to rest up before he goes on his annual Yuletide spree. Also, he wanted to catch up on the latest fNCAA football. He is fixed upon Ole Miss, delighting in their defeat of Mississippi State and their victories in the play-offs. He is also deeply infuriated with Laine Kiffin. The last few days have been a near-endless chants of Hotty Toddy. Someday I must tell you the story of how he rescued me from Ayn Rand's ongoing Stockholm Sydrome. I will say this much: he engineered a pimp slapping contest between her and Cthulhu. Once more, Werner sends all his best Yuletide wishes to the Horde. At this moment Krampus is high overhead, complaining endless about how this frigid air is freeze drying his....wedding tackle, shall we say, Ach.
Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at December 24, 2025 11:57 PM (VqnfR)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 11:48 PM (6Bc8
The other variant I've seen is trying to pretend they were kind of illegal alien, when the Bible SPECIFICALLY says that they went to Bethlehem because that was Joseph's NATIVE TOWN.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 11:57 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 11:57 PM (c115l)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
We say the Left can't meme.
The Left can't Bible either.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 11:58 PM (c115l)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
The point of occlusion is called the G-Spot
Posted by: Imklos, pre-med at December 24, 2025 11:58 PM (f/3mU)
It is important to identify the problem before trying to solve it. You wind up pushing on doors marked "pull" and figure you have to push harder.
Dry up the funding and half the problem is solved.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Or you point a shotgun at the handle and blow the fucker open.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 11:58 PM (2ef5s)
It's bizarre.
Posted by: four seasons
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Had high temp of 59 here in the middle of Idaho today. Raining lightly & steadily now & still not quite 50F. Yeah, pretty warm for Christmas.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 11:59 PM (rdVOm)
JQ,
There is no reason for you to feel any guilt about him.
You have enough stuff to contend with right now.
We can't be saviors for people who have wrecked their lives. So many people try to guilt us into helping them to solve their problems.
Stay strong and let him deal with the mess he's made of his life.
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 11:59 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 11:59 PM (snZF9)
"And to all a good night".
Posted by: From about That Time at December 25, 2025 12:00 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Imklos with traditional Austro-Hungarian style at December 25, 2025 12:00 AM (f/3mU)
OK, you made me look it up.
Lightering
Lightering is the process of transferring cargo between vessels of different sizes, usually between a barge and a bulker or oil tanker. Lightering is undertaken to reduce a vessel's draft so it can enter port facilities that cannot accept large, fully loaded, ocean-going vessels.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 12:00 AM (pkeXY)
This times 1000.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 12:01 AM (lUFok)
Stay strong and let him deal with the mess he's made of his life.
Posted by: four seasons
+1 and Amen.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 12:01 AM (rghSL)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:03 AM (3ek7K)
I hope you all have a lovely and magical Christmas Day. I love you all to pieces. I will continue to pray and send my best to you all for this wonderful day!
Thanks Mr. Rex and all of you CoBs, wherever you are🥰!
Peace and good night 💕
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 25, 2025 12:03 AM (LNeRu)
That is probably a Maine Coon mixed with a Bombay. He has the same head and face as my black tom, and the same look of offense.
Bombays can run 20 lbs
Posted by: Kindltot at December 25, 2025 12:04 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:04 AM (3ek7K)
It is either a rope of sand trying to tie them all together, or it is a house of cards because none of the players have enough money to survive without the cocaine shipments and the oil, and still force some sort of fight.
It is important to identify the problem before trying to solve it. You wind up pushing on doors marked "pull" and figure you have to push harder.
Dry up the funding and half the problem is solved.
Posted by: Kin
cocaine is a hell of a drug,
rick james
Posted by: n at December 25, 2025 12:04 AM (1/MxA)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 12:05 AM (rghSL)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
Is also Merry Christmasings!
We are wait kind help for local bike shop of Novdu. We are having helmets with spikes, from old Grandfathers, but Youngs say need for speed and why always leaking the oilings of Big American Davidson-Harlyings?
Posted by: Official Novdu Informations at December 25, 2025 12:05 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 25, 2025 12:06 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 25, 2025 12:06 AM (R4u51)
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Esq - artist at December 25, 2025 12:06 AM (lUFok)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:06 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 12:08 AM (viF8m)
I had to look it up. From Apollo 12 and onwards, the initial trajectory to the Moon was just a highly elliptical orbit that would fall short of the Moon, and come back to earth. So, they were still okay if the SM engine didn't fire.
After docking with the LM and all that, they did a systems check, and then fired the SM engine to put them on the desired trajectory to reach the Moon, but it was not free return.
Apollo 13 had already done that maneuver. They were counting on using the LM engine if there was problem, which there was. If the LM engine hadn't fired properly, they would've been fucked.
Coming back, they also did another burn to speed up the return to earth. With the power constraints, they probably would've been fucked without that speed-up as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 12:08 AM (w6EFb)
Lightering is the process of transferring cargo between vessels of different sizes, usually between a barge and a bulker or oil tanker. Lightering is undertaken to reduce a vessel's draft so it can enter port facilities that cannot accept large, fully loaded, ocean-going vessels.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
That is how I Darleen in the front door sometimes
Pee and try again
Posted by: Imkos tries. And pushes. And lubricates the door frame at December 25, 2025 12:08 AM (f/3mU)
Merry Christmas, Horde-- I'd be bonkers without all of you.
Ugh. Think I'll mix a drink...
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:09 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 25, 2025 12:06 AM (nbLIj)
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Someone needs to invest in a calendar.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 12:09 AM (nWPIJ)
I'm drinking a lot of wine to night, so just put up with me, lol.
My favorite Christmas song is O Holy Night. Last night we watched/listened to Jenniffer Nettles, of Sugarland, sing the song. Her rendition is so powerful. It brought tears to our eyes.
The only accompaniment she had was a guy playing the guitar.
It was so moving and I recommend watching it on the boob tube.
It was the video that was on Sirius.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:10 AM (3ek7K)
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That cat is not 47lbs. It's a big cat but no way it's 47lbs. Probably 25 at most. I have a Maine Coon mix kitten that's almost 11lbs at 9 months. He looks full Maine coon.
I'm ready to kill the dog. I made an apple pie today. It turned out great, looked great. Had it on the counter to cool... I no longer have anything to bring to the in-laws house tomorrow...😱🤯🤨😡
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 25, 2025 12:11 AM (VCgbV)
And I will put enmity between thee (the serpent) and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it (her seed - Jesus) shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
It was our Lord's crucifixion that defeated satan, bruised his head. The Lamb, slain from the foundation of the world.
Thank you Father for sending your Only Begotten Son! That through your gift of faith in Him we have life eternal.
Thank you Jesus, our Lord and Saviour, for being obedient, even unto death. Help me to be obedient unto you.
In Jesus name above all names I ask!
Posted by: TeeJ at December 25, 2025 12:11 AM (T08Hw)
Posted by: H1-Z Imklos at December 25, 2025 12:12 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 12:12 AM (rghSL)
Just got here, going to read the comments, nice ONT, thanks!
I've put out luminaries before. They are beautiful and easy: brown paper bags, sand, and tea light candles.
Thanks for the note about checking in on loved ones who may be struggling.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 25, 2025 12:12 AM (igoLh)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 12:13 AM (nWPIJ)
youtube.com/watch?v=Mn_y3nVUmGk
Posted by: gp at December 25, 2025 12:13 AM (GHIyr)
OK, you made me look it up.
Lightering
Lightering is the process of transferring cargo between vessels of different sizes, usually between a barge and a bulker or oil tanker. Lightering is undertaken to reduce a vessel's draft so it can enter port facilities that cannot accept large, fully loaded, ocean-going vessels.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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And what's up the street from GOLA?
Exxon, one of the only refineries capable of mass reduction to Venezuelan tar.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 12:13 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 11:57 PM (IG3/x)
I usually take that "illegal alien" bit to be about their running to Egypt, which, if I understand it correctly, in modern parlance, would have been like moving from Puerto Rico to Guam.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 12:14 AM (sjyPY)
There was a group in the MA town I used to live in that would spend days lining the roads with luminaries, candles in white bags. The tradition was on Christmas Eve people would turn their car headlights off and drive around by the light of the luminaries and Christmas decorations. It was really pretty.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 12:15 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Cicero
I think it's in there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3kQlsW3JxY
Posted by: Swingin' it Imklos at December 25, 2025 12:15 AM (f/3mU)
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There is a great danger that our sympathy and heartfelt caring can become enabling.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 12:16 AM (XeU6L)
The only difference is only one of them was an intentional idiot.
Posted by: JB1000 at December 25, 2025 12:18 AM (/gRa9)
Posted by: gp at December 25, 2025 12:18 AM (GHIyr)
JQ,
Have your drink and try to relax.
You are having tough times now. The main thing is not to feel responsible about your b-i-law.
Hubby and I have been in that position with a couple of family members and, you know what? Everything we did to help them did no good. They are still in the shitholes they have made of their lives.
Good people try to help others and most of the time it doesn't do anything for them and makes our lives worse.
I'm not trying to be bossy, lol, well sometimes I am.
Take care of your husband and you and that is all that matters.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:19 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
It's when the ululations start
Posted by: Imlos notices that the drums have also stopped at December 25, 2025 12:20 AM (f/3mU)
Mike Hammer,
You are correct!
Merry Christmas to you and I hope the bears up there leave you alone, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:21 AM (3ek7K)
Heard some celebratory gunfire a little while ago. No fireworks.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
Thugs shooting at Santa.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 12:21 AM (pkeXY)
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Worth the watch, Nettles, Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel
https://shorturl.at/v7rO3
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 12:21 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 11:58 PM (2ef5s)
It doesn;t matter how much force you use if you don't understand the problem. You missed where I said "we have been killing people for all my life and it hasn't worked, besides make a lot of people who aren't related to me really rich."
Your blood, their wealth.
Your addiction, their wealth.
Your children sacrificed, their wealth.
This isn't winning.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 25, 2025 12:22 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 12:09 AM (nWPIJ)
It's Florida. Fireworks stores are open all year round here...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 25, 2025 12:22 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: four seasons
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Yes. That IS all that really matters.
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:22 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:23 AM (3ek7K)
They've got the Artemis II SLS rocket boosters all decked out with an "America 250" logo. I think Trump is going to make a big deal out of this as part of the 250 year festivities.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 12:24 AM (w6EFb)
--
Sounds good to me.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 12:25 AM (2ef5s)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your wonderful wife.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:04 AM (3ek7K)
Thanks, and to you as well!
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 12:26 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Mick at December 25, 2025 12:27 AM (HFx9z)
JQ,
The only thing that matters now is you and your husband.
I'm almost 80 y/o and I speak from experience. We cannot let guilt rule our lives. I wished I had learned that many years ago.
You are a wonderful person.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:28 AM (3ek7K)
Just an educated guess on my part.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 12:28 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Official Novdu Informations at December 25, 2025 12:05 AM (f/3mU)
They haven't leaked since 1984. You sure you're not wearing the helmet spike on the inside? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 12:28 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 12:29 AM (2ef5s)
And there's a significant chance that they won't survive.
Posted by: pawn at December 25, 2025 12:30 AM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Wolfus beat me to it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 12:30 AM (XeU6L)
I'm so old, I remember this
https://twitter.com/i/status/2003157180179186013
God Bless us, every one
Posted by: Tiny Imklos Tim at December 25, 2025 12:30 AM (f/3mU)
They haven't leaked since 1984. You sure you're not wearing the helmet spike on the inside? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
----
Glad they figured it out.
But you know
my Kohler has been leaking since the middle of 2000 and it's still leaking. Just add oil up to the fill line and crank it up.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 12:33 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:33 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Says here...Mike Hammer...one (1) figgy pudding
*adjusts monocle, and glances over in a kindly way*
Posted by: Tiny Imklos Tim, keeping records like his Dad at December 25, 2025 12:33 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:34 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:34 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:35 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: four seasons
Dittos
You also have Dixie doggie tail wags.
Which has got to be good for something
Posted by: Tiny Imklos Tim, thankful and prayerful at December 25, 2025 12:35 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: PabloD at December 25, 2025 12:36 AM (Epuwl)
Posted by: four seasons
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*blushes*
Don't know about wonderful, but I *do* wonder a lot... heh.
Merry Christmas, 4s. And thank you.
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:36 AM (rdVOm)
God Bless us, every one
Posted by: Tiny Imklos Tim
---
Merry Christmas, Miklos.
_ . - > MERRY CHRISTMAS to ALL !!!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 12:36 AM (2ef5s)
Son #1 just left. We co hosted my brother and his family plus my SiL 89 yo dad. He’s a lovely gentleman. Parkinson’s. He’s Jami g in there though and, if you take the time, has lovely comments to add to conversation.
Son stayed to help with initial cleanup. Dishwasher running. I will leave my
Depression era glassware for tomorrow morning when I am more coordinated.
Love to you all. Just me and Lucy now. son will be here in the morning for crab cakes and presents.
I am so very blessed.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2025 12:37 AM (IhIKR)
*mixes one more*
Posted by: JQ
Dammit
No
Gosh darn it
*checks Amazon for one of those automatic drink maker machines*
Posted by: Tiny Imklos Tim, starting gift list for 2026 at December 25, 2025 12:38 AM (f/3mU)
Hubby and I are retired.
He does his thing and I do my thing, perks of being retired.
He amazed me last when I told him I know I read AOS most of the day. He told me it's your community.
He is right, geez, I hate to admit he's right about something, lol.
We are a community here, not the commie type of community.
We are all blessed by Ace.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:39 AM (3ek7K)
Ahhhhh... that feels pretty good.
*mixes one more*
Posted by: JQ
---
Hey ho, I'm having extras too.
--- is it sleigh bells or tinnitus? only your dr knows for sure
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 12:39 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:40 AM (3ek7K)
I watched "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" a few weeks ago and I have to say, your use of "GatorCam" was sheer genius.
I guess you didn't finish your Hallmark Christmas movie in time to show it this year. Hopefully, next year we get to see Nick Cage as the cocaine-crazed small town guy who shows the city girl the True Meaning of Christmas.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 25, 2025 12:41 AM (A62KL)
MiladyJo fed these three dogs and our cat, then went down to the old house near the gate to feed the various feral kitties down there, then went to feed and check on Son's two dogs and cat since he's working late, then went by Daughter's to check on their two cats. That's five dogs, four house cats, and a pack of ferals. I just sat here and hung out with the feral Morons on the ONT.
About 40 minutes until Midnight here in God's best time zone, so it's time to leave and go do some final Christmasy things.
Silent Night (Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht)
Edison Male Quartette (1905)
https://youtu.be/yA7dj7wBONY
Sweet dreams of sugar plum fairies, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - keep it simple, keep it sweet at December 25, 2025 12:42 AM (uPdbI)
Posted by: Sobek at December 25, 2025 12:42 AM (sazW1)
Posted by: Tiny Imklos Tim,
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Pony up 20k, Tesla Optimus not only makes your drink it brings it to you.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 12:42 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at December 25, 2025 12:43 AM (VqnfR)
Posted by: Braenyard
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LOL! My tinnitus gets so loud sometimes, I wonder if *other people* can hear it too!
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:44 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 12:44 AM (npFr7)
I remember your nic as a frequent commentator.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025 12:44 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 12:45 AM (viF8m)
Miklos,
Hubby and I were laughing with oldest son tonight about a dog we had a couple of decades named Dixie. She was a cocker spaniel and was the meanest dog we've ever had. We're sure she was an inbreed dog from unscrupulous breeders. We kept her until her old age but it was a trial.
Meanest bitch we've ever had, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:45 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Tiny Imklos Tim
Have you considered an IV slow-drip of pure ethanol? No more having to get off the couch. No more messing with those pesky bottles of mixer.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 25, 2025 12:46 AM (A62KL)
Is Tigger that (formerly little) kitten what you found in the shop a while back?
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:46 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard
*invests 20k in Tesla shares*
This might work
Posted by: Tiny Imklos Tim, nickel and dime and lithium investor at December 25, 2025 12:47 AM (f/3mU)
But you know
my Kohler has been leaking since the middle of 2000 and it's still leaking. Just add oil up to the fill line and crank it up.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 12:33 AM (2ef5s)
I hate oil leaks. Harley had leaks for a few reasons. The main thing was up until 1965 they had a front primary chain oiler that pumped, or dripped oil directly from the oil pump onto the chain to lube it, and there was no return. There was a small little drain tube that dropped it onto the street. In 1965 they came out with a return system. Great, but then they added an oiler to the rear drive chain, so now that chain got oiled, and dripped onto the street. The big problem is owners never checked the setting of the rear oiler which was adjustable, and they just let it do whatever. They also never checked the return hoses for the primary oiling system. They would get loose, or old and cracked, more leaks. 1984 they came out with a new motor, stuck the primary chain in a sealed wet bath with it's own fluid, and eventually in 1986 went to rear belt drives with the new 5 speed, and poof, no more leaks.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 12:47 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 12:47 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:48 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:48 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:46 AM (rdVOm)
Yes, she arrived via the Cat Distribution System. She was friendly right from the get-go, no way she was a feral. Fuzzy, all black save for a small white chest patch, and named Tigger for the stripes she ain't got.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 12:48 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
We done had that for years. Private parties only.
Posted by: Crazy Imklos' Non-Stop Tzampotli Family Fun Park and Somewhat Legal Other Stuff at December 25, 2025 12:49 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Squeee!
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:51 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 25, 2025 12:51 AM (igoLh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 12:52 AM (npFr7)
And to all you cantankerous bastards,
You’re all a bunch of softies and I want to hug you all.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2025 12:52 AM (IhIKR)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:53 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: PabloD at December 25, 2025 12:54 AM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at December 25, 2025 12:54 AM (VqnfR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
I see dollar signs....
*tries to file patent on Official Holiday*
Posted by: Imklosian Anti-Marketing SA de CV at December 25, 2025 12:55 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Genial bartender on unpaid leave at December 25, 2025 12:56 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 12:58 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 12:59 AM (w6EFb)
Drink until I'm fucking jolly fa la la la la la la la la
Laugh at those in ghey apparel fa la la la la la la la
Time to tap another barrel fa la la la la la la la la
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 12:59 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 01:00 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:00 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 01:01 AM (XSP3T)
Merry Christmas back to all of you!
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 01:01 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 01:01 AM (yreN9)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:01 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 01:01 AM (rghSL)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 01:01 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
I left Bourbon
Bet it's gone by morning
Posted by: Imklos was a Good Boy, considering at December 25, 2025 01:03 AM (f/3mU)
https://youtu.be/1cZIUstS1wY
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 01:07 AM (rghSL)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:01 AM (rdVOm)
like this? lol
Deck the viking house with holly Valhalla la la la la la la la
Drink the mead until we're jolly Valhalla la la la la la la la
Don we now our war apparel valhalla la la la la la la la
raid some village steal their barrels valhalla la la la la la la la
Merry christmas to you too!
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 01:07 AM (snZF9)
Just for fun, I ran Stellarium back to 2BC using DE441 (that's a 2GB data file, too!)
That conjunction of Venus and Jupiter peaked at June 17, 2BC, at 17:50 Z.
Well, "Z" is UT1, based on Stellarium's delta-t model. In ephemeris time, it's exact, but the uncertainties in earth's rotation make it a little bit fuzzy for actual UT1 time.
Anyway, they were so close the disc of Venus touched Jupiter. Venus was closer to Jupiter in the sky than all the Galilean moons. That was some conjunction indeed.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 01:09 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 01:10 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Dr_No at December 25, 2025 01:10 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 01:12 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 01:14 AM (3ek7K)
https://tinyurl.com/4ujsevdz
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 11:18 PM (rbvCR)
That was fascinating! You’re right he has his own agenda, and by the end you get into the “huh?” territory, but it’s still some great thinking.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 01:15 AM (7JH4o)
Stay strong and let him deal with the mess he's made of his life.
Posted by: four seasons
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I'm a soft touch for someone with dementia and mental illness. Her bad behavior is not entirely her fault, but it's still bad behavior.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 25, 2025 01:17 AM (tESdR)
I got her a basket of goodies - a fuzzy lined cap with earflaps and a brim (she's sleeping in it right now), one of those scarves with a loop so you can feed the other end right through and keep your throat and neck warm without long ends to deal with. Some fancy Italian cookies that my college roommate brought to our wedding that she thought were delicious. Some Andes and cinnamon honey pecans.
And hopefully the best one - a collection of the first three novels in a new detective series for her. She's sucked all of the juice out of Commissar Brunetti and his wife Paola. I hope that Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano is as enjoyable for her, because there are over two dozen novels so far.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 01:22 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:26 AM (rdVOm)
Well, not today, it's gonna be in the 70s.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 01:27 AM (w6EFb)
I've read the Ethical Skeptic stuff for a while. His writing, however, can be like trying to swim through molasses in December.
He's the author of that "ECDO Theory", that the Erf does a crust/mantle pole shit from decoupling with the core. I tell myself that is just impossible. The erf has settled around it's maximum axis of inertia, and nothing like that can happen. Seriously, in his timeline, the last time that supposedly happened was what, 4000 BC or something? No way we could be here now if that happened that recently.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 01:28 AM (w6EFb)
I'm a soft-touch too, for anyone in need. It has been mostly to my own detriment over the years...
Being called "selfish" is like being called "racist"-- no one wants to be called *that* or to be thought of as such!
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:29 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 01:29 AM (JkO4W)
Bet it's gone by morning
Posted by: Imklos was a Good Boy, considering at December 25, 2025 01:03 AM (f/3mU)
I bought some for eggnog, but I haven't made eggnog yet. So maybe two fingers in a crystal glass, to toast Santa, of course.
brb
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 01:30 AM (w6EFb)
Miley,
I am hooked on a series written by M. C. Beaton.
It's a series about a constable in the Scottish Highlands, Hamish Macbeth.
When Mama runs out of something to read you might want to check out those books.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 01:31 AM (3ek7K)
There's only so much BS I will take, before shutting off completely. Compassion fatigue...
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:34 AM (rdVOm)
20 minutes here in the Mountain time zone until Christmas Day. Then it will be time to go to bed.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 01:41 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 01:42 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:42 AM (rdVOm)
Running Stellarium back to August 27th, yep, that 4-planet conjunction happened just like ES described it.
DE441 puts in on August 26, around noon UT1, which is well within the expected uncertainty range of lower precision ephemeris.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 01:44 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:26 AM (rdVOm)
I love that lady, JQ. It's been a rough 6 months for her, and I'm grateful to have her with us still. Since we don't have kids and the cats are happy with boxes, she's like the kid. Honestly, she's so cute in her warm cap.
I did not manage to get her a Christmas tree this year. I may run some seed lights up a palm tree tomorrow. My bad.
And I haven't baked a single cookie. Yet. But I'm planning to bake an apple pie recipe from 1390.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 01:45 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Piper at December 25, 2025 01:46 AM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 01:46 AM (2WIwB)
Being called "selfish" is like being called "racist"-- no one wants to be called *that* or to be thought of as such!
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:29 AM (rdVOm)
I have made that mistake often, I certainly sympathize. I always talk a big game like I’m gonna be a hard ass and when its decision time I fold like a cheap lawn chair.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 01:46 AM (7JH4o)
That makes a fellow think about dating a stripper again.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 25, 2025 01:47 AM (A62KL)
By "puts it" at a certain time, I'm looking for when everything is the closest.
You had Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter nearly on top of one another, with a thin crescent Venus off to the side, and the thin crescent Moon above, all in Regulus.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 01:47 AM (w6EFb)
Miley,
I am hooked on a series written by M. C. Beaton.
It's a series about a constable in the Scottish Highlands, Hamish Macbeth.
When Mama runs out of something to read you might want to check out those books.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 01:31 AM (3ek7K)
AWESOME! Will make a note of that right now.
Actually, Grok recommended the Montalbano series.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 01:48 AM (w6EFb)
I would like to exchange stories of human perfidy with Miss Mama.
The resulting book should be required reading for all Business students, and the exam required for any MBA program.
Posted by: President Imklos J. Trump, noting that Trump has a Masters in Finance at December 25, 2025 01:50 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 01:51 AM (3ek7K)
You, my friend, live in the safest city in Sakerlina, and I hope you appreciate that.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 01:53 AM (w6EFb)
The Ballad of Harley's Hat is only 90% done
Tales of Human Perfidy could be a whole 90 minute set or CD
Posted by: Imklos is as lazy as Life allows at December 25, 2025 01:55 AM (f/3mU)
She rejected the Anne of Green Gables series - she said she didn't like the way she looked on the cover.
*shrugs*
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 01:55 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 01:59 AM (7JH4o)
This is all fascinating. 2 BC was indeed a year with some spectacular alignments in the sky. That previous June conjunction of Jupiter and Venus, touching each other, and then this 4 planet thing in late August. That was a very rare thing, indeed.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 02:00 AM (w6EFb)
Men's Revenge is more to the point. Usually half an hour or so. The wives are such bitchez! Maya, over 2 hours. Women like to really get into the emotional element. Takes time.
What are AI learning?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
Oh Honey Chile.
If I make it to the coast, well, look up the Black Weeks at the beach.
Some weeks businesses close down, and people hunker down. Virginia Beach, Ft. Lauderdale....
Posted by: Imklos is as careful as Life allows at December 25, 2025 02:00 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 25, 2025 02:00 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
AI learns everything from me.
I think AI owes me moneys
Posted by: Imklos is as all-knowing as any dildo, maybe moreso sometimes at December 25, 2025 02:03 AM (f/3mU)
Alright,
It is now Christmas Day here in the great state of Wyoming.
Merry Christmas to all and goodnight.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 25, 2025 02:03 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:05 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:06 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Imklos is as lazy as Life allows
-----------
Say the magic woid and win the tune of life:
youtube.com/watch?v=9wYEfQcU0Ww
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 02:06 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:07 AM (w6EFb)
They's a "R" onto the end of that
Sakkliner
or
South kackalacky
Posted by: Clempson hampsters at December 25, 2025 02:07 AM (f/3mU)
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 25, 2025 02:09 AM (A62KL)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:10 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 02:11 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:11 AM (w6EFb)
There's gonna be a lot of shrieking.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:15 AM (w6EFb)
"Perfidia" was originally performed by the Mexican composer Alberto Domínguez in 1939. It became a hit when recorded by Xavier Cugat in 1940.
But what about Benny?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 02:17 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:17 AM (w6EFb)
Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 02:18 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:19 AM (w6EFb)
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Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 02:20 AM (rdVOm)
I am wrapped and ready, sipping on a scotch and being mighty grateful for so many blessings in my life.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 25, 2025 02:21 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: pawn at December 25, 2025 02:22 AM (EMg+d)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 02:23 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 02:24 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 25, 2025 02:32 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:29 AM (rdVOm
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Good point. I'll have mull that over, include it in my thinking.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 25, 2025 02:33 AM (v71Ni)
Posted by: pawn
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He didn't have any alligators. what else could he do?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 02:34 AM (2ef5s)
The Philippines Department of National Defense (DND) is preparing to sign a ₱34-billion ($585 million) contract to acquire two new frigates for the Philippine Navy
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Everybody's gearing up for Chairman Xi.
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Sanae Takaichi, wants Japanese government to revisit the constitution regarding military restrictions.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 02:43 AM (2ef5s)
_Sanae Takaichi
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 02:48 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 25, 2025 02:49 AM (0nHVk)
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Posted by: JM in Illinois
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Beware of those who would use the word "selfish" as a cudgel against you! Consider whether they stand to gain from your *supposed* guilt.
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 02:55 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 02:58 AM (rdVOm)
Need to sleep but so wound-up! Grrr.
Lord, please help me overcome anger and resentment! Please help me discern true need from thieving deception.
I'm not worthy. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 03:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 03:05 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 02:55 AM (rdVOm)
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Yes, indeed, their gain from "supposed" guilt. Spot on.Thanks.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 25, 2025 03:09 AM (DwYwN)
I'm not worthy. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 03:03 AM (rdVOm)
Go with your gut. I found that "usually" thieving deception types are gross repeat offenders, true need types are usually victims of circumstances beyond their control. I have a friend who is an abject fuckup, a 90% worthless human, but is as honest as the day is long, and never really asks for help much. He can't fix anything, and would be late to his own funeral, and is in a semi hell of his own making because he just won't get his shit together. Probably in a class by himself as he'll never screw anybody for his own survival. You want to help, but it just wouldn't produce any lasting results.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 03:14 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 25, 2025 03:22 AM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 03:29 AM (Ia/+0)
Time to say good night to all.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 25, 2025 03:37 AM (jRujf)
Repeat.
So good. So very, very GOOD.
Merry Christmas to you all.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 03:38 AM (2Ez/1)
Hemispherical
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 03:49 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 03:56 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip
You can stay up
There are bluberry muffins on the kitchen table
Posted by: Affectonate Aunt Imklos, enjoying a Hot Toddy with "Uncle" Raymond at December 25, 2025 03:59 AM (f/3mU)
Israel favors Moscow’s presence over Turkey’s expanding influence, and Washington accepts Russia’s key role given its control on the ground, officials say. - Kan News
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 04:00 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)
Christmas Eve Cafe
Spain calls their Nativity-scene buildters Belenistas,
though this one is by an American in Santa Clara
At the conference, Benito learned that in Europe, whole cities have Nativity scene clubs that spend an entire year constructing life-sized dioramas, "For example, Madrid, Sevilla, and Barcelona: their clubs start building detailed buildings, with little exterior little lights, little pots and pans, trees and some of the dioramas have real water running as a little creek or fountain." One of the few Americans to participate in the international conference, he laughed when he recalled how the European artisans reacted when they discovered his nationality, “A gentleman said to us, "Americans, pay close attention to this diorama because St. Joseph looks like the Hollywood actor, Charlton Heston, Mary is the likeness Ava Gardner, and the Egyptian figurine looks like Yul Brynner." But apart from this playful reference to the Hollywood film The Ten Commandments, Benito was one of equals amongst a handful of 550 international nativity makers in attendance. All were treated to the various creative ways that the nativity clubs and Spanish and Italian artists craft their dioramas to be truly sensory experiences.Merry Christmas, friends! And garrett, too! And of course a special thanks to the cobloggers! Give them a hand. Tomorrow and Friday will be open threads from me, but I've got some good ones in the mix. Cucking a chicken. If you need a last-minute gift recommendation for your cat... This dog wants you to know there's no shame in wearing a garish Christmas sweater. Never challenge a cat in a pouncing contest. On the internet, no one can tell if you're a cat. Scuba Santa delivers toys to all the good underwater boys and girls. Sweet drinks cabinet.
Baby elephant trying to stand up for the first time..🐘🐾😊❤️ pic.twitter.com/Npauxd4m4C
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 21, 2025
We’re honored to partner with the The 3rd New Jersey Regiment, Capt. Bloomfield's Company "Jersey Grays" in sharing the mission of Washington Crossing Historic Park 🤝 
— Washington Crossing Historic Park (@WashXingPark) December 16, 2025
This reel is a powerful reminder of the harsh winter conditions faced by the Continental Army and the… pic.twitter.com/t42BDaOvUU
He finally found his missing dog at a shelter.. 🥺 pic.twitter.com/rHYzVCX5ex
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 20, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)It's been two-thousand years. When will the Jews admit they're wrong?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:35 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:35 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 07:36 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 07:37 PM (gbOdA)
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My cat Hexie would *love* that gift.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 07:37 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Case at December 24, 2025 07:37 PM (G1OIb)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 24, 2025 07:38 PM (7gFa4)
Posted by: Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all) at December 24, 2025 07:38 PM (ESVrU)
Americans use real people and animals.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:38 PM (c115l)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 24, 2025 07:38 PM (sDNVV)
106 Tucker did not spend the entire speech shilling for Islam.
Just part of it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 06:53 PM (Vj99u)
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Here's 32 seconds of VDH's introduction to his take down of Carlson.
https://tinyurl.com/b23yhyrs
Here's VDH's takedown of Tucker Carlson;
There is a 1:27second quote of Tucker's idiocy before VDH begins.
Push up to 1:27 if you choose.
https://tinyurl.com/fr7z74b5
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 07:39 PM (2ef5s)
This is about every angle greeting. Maybe because we are weak and scared, and doubting when G D has a plan for us.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 07:39 PM (gbOdA)
But do you think General George Jefferson stood up like a light house on the boat as the famous painting depicts? I doubt it.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:39 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 07:39 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:40 PM (c115l)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 07:40 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Ben
How is she doing?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:40 PM (c115l)
I LOLed; it hurt...(still recovering from abdominal surgery last week)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 07:41 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 07:41 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 07:41 PM (0sNs1)
This is about every angle greeting. Maybe because we are weak and scared, and doubting when G D has a plan for us.
Posted by: r hennigantx
Maybe angels don't all look like Glenda the Good Witch?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:42 PM (c115l)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 07:42 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:42 PM (yreN9)
Washington wasn't having it and delivered the ultimate punishment. Not taught in most history classes.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:42 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 24, 2025 07:42 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:42 PM (c115l)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 07:43 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:43 PM (c115l)
{{{{Jane D'oh}}}} Merry Christmas!!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 07:43 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 07:43 PM (gbOdA)
Wondering if it was acute one...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 07:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:44 PM (c115l)
God rest ye, Merry Gentlemorons & ettes
(Per Ann Barnhardt, "Merry," in early modern English meant "mighty" or "great". And "rest" means "keep".)
Posted by: mindful webworker - let nothing you dismay at December 24, 2025 07:45 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:45 PM (npFr7)
Ooooooh. A double post.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:42 PM
Yah. Pixy was caganeering on me.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 07:45 PM (0sNs1)
Monteverdi smiles upon you all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqrTsxQgCt0
Posted by: Piercello at December 24, 2025 07:46 PM (NRGJj)
Is it figgy or thiggy pudding?
And what is it?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:42 PM (yreN9)
Intertubes say similar to fruit cake, but different.
https://tinyurl.com/4k6ftyt9
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 07:47 PM (ynpvh)
And what is it?
Posted by: Soothsayer
You have to bring it, and bring it right now, before we can tell.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 07:47 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:35 PM (yreN9)
I have a friend, a rabbi here in town. He likes to say “When the Messiah comes, first thing I’m gonna ask him - is this your first visit here, or your second?”
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 07:48 PM (7JH4o)
I think that's gone the way of the Dodo bird.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:49 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:45 PM (npFr7)
especially as he's not in the bed...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 07:49 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:49 PM (npFr7)
I think that's gone the way of the Dodo bird.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:49 PM (KDPiq)
Sorry. Nowadays we have Karening.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 07:49 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:50 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Piercello at December 24, 2025 07:50 PM (NRGJj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:49 PM (npFr7)
Better call OSHA...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 07:50 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:49 PM (npFr7)
Don't know why that gave me a chuckle but it did.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 07:50 PM (7JH4o)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 07:48 PM (7JH4o)
That's pretty good.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:50 PM (KDPiq)
"Have you ever been to Utah?"
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:51 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 07:42 PM (ynpvh)
Likewise from me, Jane!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:51 PM (npFr7)
God: No dice. They're still talking about my last vacation there and that was over 2,000 years ago!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM (wVcYX)
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Of the greatness of his government and peace
there will be no end.
He will reign on David’s throne
and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
with justice and righteousness
from that time on and forever.
The zeal of the Lord Almighty
will accomplish this.
Isaiah 9:6-7
Posted by: Marcus T at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM (B5Sbl)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 07:44 PM (ynpvh)
Do not be obtuse
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)
The more you look at it, the more you realize the modeler simply did not know how arches work.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM (npFr7)
I went out early this morning to do some last minute shopping. It was early in the day, so I wasn't expecting total chaos, but thought things might be a little hectic. Turns out, not so much. I guess it's due to online shopping, but last minute shopping isn't what it used to be.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 24, 2025 07:56 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 07:57 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: pawn at December 24, 2025 07:57 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 07:57 PM (f5220)
Krogers was packed so I spent twice as much for a roll of paper towels at the Circle K so I wouldn't have to deal with it.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:58 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM (npFr7)
Arches sure weren't decorative back then. I mean they could be. But decoration/style was not their purpose.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 07:59 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 08:00 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 08:01 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:01 PM (f5220)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM
Darnit, I'm an artist, AOP, not an engineer!
Posted by: The Modeler at December 24, 2025 08:01 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 08:02 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)
The more you look at it, the more you realize the modeler simply did not know how arches work.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM (npFr7)
It was a Christmas miracle!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:02 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 07:59 PM (gKDq2)
I expect most plebian building in Biblical Israel was done with adobe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 08:02 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM (npFr7)
Arches sure weren't decorative back then. I mean they could be. But decoration/style was not their purpose.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 07:59 PM (gKDq2)
Ah, yes, an arch enemy.
Posted by: Piercello at December 24, 2025 08:03 PM (NRGJj)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 08:04 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:04 PM (f5220)
Brian's Mum: Led by a bottle, more like.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 08:00 PM (wVcYX)
Reminds me of this one:
Guy is driving in the deep South and sees a creche with the three wise men dressed as firemen. So he stops and asks around and keeps being told it's in the Bible. So finally he asks, "Show me in the Bible where it says that!", and a guy goes, it says, "It's right here. It says they came from afar."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:05 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 08:05 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 08:06 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:06 PM (f5220)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:06 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 07:59 PM (gKDq2
I tried to show them how it’s done.
Posted by: Titus at December 24, 2025 08:06 PM (7JH4o)
Posted by: mindful webworker - let nothing you dismay
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So, not pacifist?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 08:06 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 08:07 PM (pkeXY)
Still in fear of mine to come!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 08:05 PM (Kt19C)
My discomfort is much reduced. Coughs don't kill me like they did before (hold my belly for those), still prevent sneezes though, as I figure those will really hurt...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:07 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Opinion fact
Shit. You can't hide money, I guess.
Posted by: Poor Boy From A Poor Family at December 24, 2025 08:07 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 08:07 PM (pkeXY)
Dyslexic DEI...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:07 PM (ynpvh)
1. How many reindeer does Santa have?
2. Can you name them all?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:06 PM (yreN9)
3. How many of his reindeer can jump higher than a house?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:08 PM (ynpvh)
Just reading some more about this Black Dahlia/Zodiac suspect, Marvin Margolis (who used the alias Marvin Merrill in later life).
His son is fully cooperating with all this. He doesn't believe his father could have done it, but he's letting them have everything they want. They're going to do handwriting analysis and all that.
Also, Margolis did do 30 days in jail in CA for some fraud case involving an auto-repair business he was in in the early '70s.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 08:08 PM (w6EFb)
Thank you, Amazonian Gods of Delivery!
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 08:08 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:08 PM (f5220)
lulz...
black people...
Nicki Minaj is no longer a "black American" goblins declare on Black Twitter and Black Tik Tok.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:08 PM (yreN9)
Do you know how to drum?
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 08:09 PM (KDPiq)
but it is We who are in a "cult"
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:09 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Javems at December 24, 2025 08:09 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Hal Dall at December 24, 2025 08:09 PM (SBJWI)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:09 PM (f5220)
lulz...
black people...
Nicki Minaj is no longer a "black American" goblins declare on Black Twitter and Black Tik Tok.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:08 PM (yreN9)
Those lefties sure like to "whitewash" any man or woman of color they don't like...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:10 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 08:10 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Movin' On Up! at December 24, 2025 08:11 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 08:11 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:11 PM (f5220)
Three Godfathers, with the Duke.
On now, but getting sleeeeepy...
Zzzzz zzzzz Zzzzzz
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 08:11 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:09 PM (f5220)
Q. How many of his reindeer can jump higher than a house?
A: All of them; houses don't jump.
(Not even the bouncy ones, unless poorly tied down and picked up by the wind, and even then it's not jumping).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:12 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 24, 2025 08:12 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Hal Dall at December 24, 2025 08:09 PM (SBJWI)
David McCullough's "1776" isn't bad, either. Covers only the year 1776, including The Battle of Trenton as a windup.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 08:12 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 08:13 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 24, 2025 08:14 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 08:14 PM (KDPiq)
Jim in Kali,
I loved the firemen joke, lol.
Thanks for the laugh.
Merry Christmas!
Posted by: fourseasons at December 24, 2025 08:12 PM (3ek7K)
Thx (not my joke, just stole it).
Merry Christmas to you too.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:14 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:14 PM (f5220)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:15 PM (f5220)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:05 PM (ynpvh)
LOL
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 08:16 PM (wVcYX)
Who's having a White Christmas?
/raises claw
It snowed enough yesterday to make everything white.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:16 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Boss Moss
The Mesopotmanians?
Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slurp at December 24, 2025 08:16 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 08:17 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:17 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:14 PM (f5220)
It was the rage in Britain, at some point, to build ruins to have on one's estate...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:17 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Movin' On Up! at December 24, 2025 08:11 PM (oftw2)
Around 2950 feet, according to a topo map found online.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 08:19 PM (npFr7)
Who's having a White Christmas?
/raises claw
It snowed enough yesterday to make everything white.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:16 PM (yreN9)
Rain here. They say it's an atmospheric river...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:19 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 24, 2025 08:20 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
That's right. They also built Church ruins to bury their rich relatives in. It was all the rage.
Posted by: Closer To Heaven at December 24, 2025 08:20 PM (oftw2)
Did she learn how to swim?
Posted by: Boss Moss
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In a matter of speaking.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Here's to swimmin' with bow legged wimmen.
- Quint
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 08:20 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:20 PM (f5220)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 08:21 PM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 08:21 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 08:21 PM (rZCVI)
Any Wassailing?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:22 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Kinda sad y'all can't dig a hole in the ground to store water. In many other states, they are called reservoirs.
Posted by: French Term, I Believe at December 24, 2025 08:22 PM (oftw2)
That's nice, Fenelon. Glad it went well.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:22 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 08:22 PM (rZCVI)
Back from candlelight service
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 08:22 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:23 PM (f5220)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Kinda sad y'all can't dig a hole in the ground to store water. In many other states, they are called reservoirs.
Posted by: French Term, I Believe at December 24, 2025 08:22 PM (oftw2)
In Kali, we blow more dams than we build, and can't blame Kumala for all of the blowing...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:24 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:24 PM (f5220)
TC is a self serving fool.
Posted by: Accomack at December 24, 2025 08:24 PM (/Chlc)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Wow, that means it's downhill to Rowley then.
Posted by: Coasting Away. at December 24, 2025 08:24 PM (oftw2)
Is that going to be on the test?
Posted by: Florida International University Engineering at December 24, 2025 08:24 PM (UYzXg)
I'm not actually sure what "wassailing" is but I think it involves alcoholic beverages and singing . 😉 we can't have alcohol on church property and I'm not about to go to the liquor store right now.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 08:25 PM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 08:25 PM (aKh6S)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 08:25 PM (rZCVI)
And of course a special thanks to the cobloggers! Give them a hand.
Posted by: Ace
Merry Christmas, Ace!
Merry Christmas, CoBs! 👏
Merry Christmas, Horde!
We all knew garrett was more than a friend.....
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 08:25 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 24, 2025 08:26 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: torabora at December 24, 2025 08:26 PM (KtOUo)
Posted by: Archer at December 24, 2025 08:27 PM (YGRGv)
Posted by: Javems at December 24, 2025 08:28 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:28 PM (f5220)
Will again tomorrow
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 08:28 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Archer at December 24, 2025 08:28 PM (YGRGv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:28 PM (f5220)
"You had one job."
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 08:29 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 24, 2025 08:30 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 08:31 PM (rdVOm)
It still works.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 08:32 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Archer at December 24, 2025 08:33 PM (YGRGv)
Now is that why Dan left?
Is Kash next? How much can he take.
Posted by: torabora a
---
Are they leaving because they have been thwarted in their mission?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 08:34 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Coasting Away. at December 24, 2025 08:24 PM (oftw2)
Rowley is at 2130 feet, so a lot lower, 820 feet lower. Doesn't really feel like it, though. Big part of the elevation difference is that one bank of the Red Deer River canyon is lower than the other.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 08:34 PM (npFr7)
Brown, muddy Christmas. Bah! Humbug!
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 08:34 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 08:35 PM (Ia/+0)
It still works.
Posted by: Cicero
Back when we had malls, there were kiosks at Christmas time selling crosses made of olive wood from Israel.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 08:35 PM (c115l)
It still works.
Posted by: Cicero
Arabs make all the bagels in NYC now too. The old Jews who did that died, or are in The Villages, their progeny went to Law School and are a Royal PITA now. Nothing is the same.
Posted by: Pining For The Fjords at December 24, 2025 08:35 PM (oftw2)
hahaha -
He thought he could hide that in the Content, safe in his assumption that nobody would ever read it.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 08:37 PM (grNgC)
Archer, we had water restrictions through the summer and fall. Barely any rain.
Hubby said probably we'll have a blizzard in May, lol.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 24, 2025 08:38 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 08:37 PM
Well, we are approaching the end of the annual Commenter Review period.
He'd have gotten away with it in January.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 08:38 PM (0sNs1)
He had an incentive to make sure it was overbuilt and wasn’t going to collapse.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 08:39 PM (2RHvg)
Having no guest rooms available they may have had to rent a stall that other guests would pay to board their animals in. Maybe same rate?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 08:42 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 08:42 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:43 PM (f5220)
2. Can you name them all?
Posted by: Soothsayer
Ten.
Rudolph, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Olive.
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 08:44 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Time For Change at December 24, 2025 08:44 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 08:45 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 08:42 PM (/lPRQ)
Could also be a part of a cheese factory. "A Whey in a Manger".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 08:46 PM (npFr7)
5 y/o granddaughter asked a couple of weeks ago if it is going to be a brown Christmas.
She's always had a white Christmas.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 24, 2025 08:46 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 08:46 PM (MvI35)
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 08:47 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 24, 2025 08:47 PM (3ek7K)
black people...
Nicki Minaj is no longer a "black American" goblins declare on Black Twitter and Black Tik Tok.
Posted by: Soothsayer
+++++
Meh.
I think she is from Trinidad AND Tobago and would personally not want to be "black American" as many more educated Africans feel.
Granted, she is in entertainment and would be careful not to say that.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 08:47 PM (/lPRQ)
7h
🚨 LMAO! The Democrat lawfare against President Trump may now BACKFIRE, resulting in MARINES being sent into Chicago instead of National Guard
SCOTUS said “regular forces” must be used before the Guard
MARINES are “regular forces”
Posted by: @nicksortor at December 24, 2025 08:49 PM (UYzXg)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:49 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Pining For The Fjords
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And the Chinese make our medicine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 08:49 PM (2ef5s)
black people...
Nicki Minaj is no longer a "black American" goblins declare on Black Twitter and Black Tik Tok.
Posted by: Soothsayer
But still lesbian right, strong and all that?
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 08:51 PM (LHPAg)
Thank you for the daily break from the craziness.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 08:51 PM (LNeRu)
Who the hell is Olive?
Posted by: Soothsayer
She's in the song. "Olive, the other reindeer."
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 08:52 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Archer at December 24, 2025 08:53 PM (YGRGv)
MARINES are “regular forces”
Posted by: @nicksortor
---
I can't find it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 08:53 PM (2ef5s)
Who the hell is Olive?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:49 PM (yreN9)
I thought 'Olive' was the new name.
Used to be Ollie.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 08:55 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 24, 2025 08:56 PM (3ek7K)
SCOTUS said “regular forces” must be used before the Guard
MARINES are “regular forces”
Posted by: @nicksortor
Ooh-rah!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 08:56 PM (c115l)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 24, 2025 08:58 PM (gm9Sb)
If I touch raw meat I will not touch anything else until I wash my hands.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:58 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 08:59 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 08:31 PM (rdVOm)
We went to the Korean restaurant.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 09:00 PM (rbvCR)
7h
🚨 LMAO! The Democrat lawfare against President Trump may now BACKFIRE, resulting in MARINES being sent into Chicago instead of National Guard
SCOTUS said “regular forces” must be used before the Guard
MARINES are “regular forces”
Posted by: @nicksortor at December 24, 2025 08:49 PM (UYzXg)
Just wait, the next judge will rule the use of the regular armed forces illegal, trying to put Trump in a zugzwang.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 09:00 PM (gKDq2)
Who the hell is Olive?
Posted by: Soothsayer
She's in the song. "Olive, the other reindeer."
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 08:52 PM (nhCoE)
***
How long you been waiting to spring that on us?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 09:00 PM (2WIwB)
MARINES are “regular forces”
Posted by: @nicksortor
__________
When it positively, absolutely has to be destroyed overnight.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 09:00 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Diogenes
That joke is old enough to shave, at minimum.
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 09:01 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Pining For The Fjords
-------
And the Chinese make our medicine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 08:49 PM (2ef5s)
And we run the IT for all of it.
- Indian H1B s
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 09:02 PM (MvI35)
Port of Galveston Offshore Lightering Area (GOLA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 09:03 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 09:04 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 09:04 PM (MvI35)
Posted by: Pining For The Fjords
-------
And the Chinese make our medicine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 08:49 PM (2ef5s)
And we run the IT for all of it.
- Indian H1B s
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 09:02 PM (MvI35)
Those yards aren't going to cut themselves.
- - Jose and Diego
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 09:04 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 09:05 PM (f5220)
Port of Galveston Offshore Lightering Area (GOLA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 09:03 PM (2ef5s)
Apparently Maduro pays his generals in oil, which is sold overseas where it is easier to launder the money to evade the US banking sanctions. Should the tankers stop running, the money stops flowing and Maduro doesn't have a military any more. The Generals do.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 09:05 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Pining For The Fjords
-------
And the Chinese make our medicine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 08:49 PM (2ef5s)
And we run the IT for all of it.
- Indian H1B s
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 09:02 PM (MvI35)
Those yards aren't going to cut themselves.
- - Jose and Diego
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 09:04 PM (2WIwB)
If you guys ever need a place to crash for the night we got you covered.
- The Patels who own every motel in America
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 09:06 PM (MvI35)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:07 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:07 PM (77rzZ)
Do you dislike using the FBI and the Federal reserve for political purposes, too? And if so, where were you bitching about this the last 4 years.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 09:08 PM (rbvCR)
Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all) absolutely LOVES her catnip-infused kitty treats.
The rest of my feline brood can't be bothered.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 09:08 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:08 PM (77rzZ)
SCOTUS said “regular forces” must be used before the Guard
MARINES are “regular forces”
Posted by: @nicksortor
+++++
Who did they deploy to enforce school desegregation on the racist Democrats back in the 50s / 60s ?
82nd or 101st ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 09:09 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 24, 2025 09:09 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 09:04 PM (MvI35)
I agree. An absolutely last resort. I don't think the cities have felt enough pain yet. The demand should be from the grassroots...the citizens. Will innocent people be hurt? Yup. But that's on the local government. Not the federal government.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 09:09 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 09:10 PM (f5220)
Posted by: LASue at December 24, 2025 09:10 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 09:11 PM (rbvCR)
Do you dislike using the FBI and the Federal reserve for political purposes, too? And if so, where were you bitching about this the last 4 years.
Posted by: Kindltot
---
Right here.
We've been here bitching about it since before Obama was elected. Remember the FBI hounded that poor scientist so hard he committed suicide
over that white powder from Florida?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 09:11 PM (2ef5s)
+++
And wasn't the bugaboo about enforcing "state law"?
F-U, they are here to enforce the federal laws against killing federal agents and terrorism which the state refuses to support.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 09:11 PM (/lPRQ)
'Who did they deploy to enforce school desegregation on the racist Democrats back in the 50s / 60s ?
82nd or 101st ?'
The 101st.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 09:12 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 09:12 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 09:12 PM (f5220)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 24, 2025 09:13 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 09:05 PM (rbvCR)
Thank you! I’ve been trying to convince people that’s what this is all about! Getting every general to realize their lives could get a lot easier if Maduro wasn’t around anymore.
And there is one other big source of cash for those generals - all of those blue barrel’s in all of those drug boats.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 09:13 PM (7JH4o)
If questioned they reply, 'you know the answers'.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 09:14 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:58 PM (yreN9)
Something something Sandra Fluke...
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 24, 2025 09:14 PM (A62KL)
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 09:15 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 09:16 PM (2ef5s)
This is how I know you are not Bobby Flay.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 09:16 PM (grNgC)
And no peeking under the tree
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 09:18 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: KT at December 24, 2025 09:19 PM (7vIsy)
Of course it’s a White Christmas.
We only let non-Caucasians in in the Summer.
Posted by: RI Red at December 24, 2025 09:20 PM (30Gj0)
Posted by: PabloD at December 24, 2025 09:20 PM (Epuwl)
Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) retweeted
🇺🇲 FLEET with 3,000–4,000 assault troops (Marines) spotted TODAY sailing aggressively headed to 🇻🇪
USS Iwo Jima (LHD) + 2 LPDs + AOR can carry ~3,000–4,000 assault troops. AOR, an oiler, fuel.
Add OVEAN TRADER special ops mothership.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 09:21 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 09:22 PM (mlg/3)
If any of you are handy Costco has 500ft of 12/2 on sale for 250 dollars.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2025 09:23 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: @nicksortor
__________
When it positively, absolutely has to be destroyed overnight.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Mrs. O'Leary, a lonely city raises it's eyes to you...
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 09:24 PM (c115l)
——-
They are going to do that anyway. They went down that path a long, long, long time ago.
This notion that nobody should do anything because the democrats will do what they are gonna do anyway, or already are, is just not persuasive to me any longer.
Expecting civility or restraint or basic decency much less lawful behaviour from these clowns is a fools’s errand. Always has.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 09:24 PM (5dzh4)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 09:24 PM (f5220)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2025 09:25 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 09:28 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 09:28 PM (7JH4o)
Tonight I’m sitting by the tree with Christmas music on, enjoying it for a second time.
And the cats are all hung by the fireplace with care.
That took some doing by myself.
Posted by: RI Red at December 24, 2025 09:28 PM (30Gj0)
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 09:29 PM (rdVOm)
Tonight I’m sitting by the tree with Christmas music on, enjoying it for a second time.
And the cats are all hung by the fireplace with care.
That took some doing by myself.
Posted by: RI Red at December 24, 2025 09:28 PM (30Gj0)
Cats are like kangaroos in a way. Give them a hanging stocking/pouch they can climb into and out of and they'll stay there all day.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 09:31 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 09:31 PM (gKDq2)
If cats had opposable thumbs, we’d have been in trouble a long time ago.
Posted by: RI Red at December 24, 2025 09:34 PM (30Gj0)
Posted by: RickZ
Animals are simple that way.
Posted by: some dude in a hammock at December 24, 2025 09:35 PM (nhCoE)
If any of you are handy Costco has 500ft of 12/2 on sale for 250 dollars.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Good price.
I wonder if President Trump's policies lowered the price of CU (copper, for those unaware).
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 09:38 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Door Buster Special !
If planning any new projects would definitely look into it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 09:38 PM (/lPRQ)
We had amazing thick fog yesterday morning and this morning; will probably have more tomorrow. That'll have to do for a "white Christmas" for us. Really not complaining!🌞🤠
MiladyJo fixed "three kinds of fish" for us tonight: salmon and cream cheese on crackers for an appetizer; cod, which wasn't very good, maybe freezer-burnt; and crabcakes, which were great, although not really fish.
Italian-heritage son-in-law and our daughter are in NY with his family for Christmas, so this year we didn't have to suffer through that twenty-seven seafoods or whatever it is Italians like to do.🐟🐠🦈🐡🙂
Posted by: mindful webworker - let it shine, let it shine, let it shine at December 24, 2025 09:39 PM (uPdbI)
This notion that nobody should do anything because the democrats will do what they are gonna do anyway, or already are, is just not persuasive to me any longer.
Expecting civility or restraint or basic decency much less lawful behaviour from these clowns is a fools’s errand. Always has.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 09:24 PM (5dzh4)
Political suicidal empathy.
"They went down that path a long, long, long time ago."
Lois Lerner IRS Supervisor extraordinaire. Just one bureaucratic (D) example among many after her. One of those little things that adds up. Pile on cencorship over a laptop and COVID. The FBI going after Catholics, particularly the Latin mass ones. Pile on the FBI going after parents at school board meetings for being 'terrorists'. Pile on the entrapment of J-6. Pile on a whole bunch of crap.
Fuck them. This is war. War for our Country.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 09:42 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: WIRE at December 24, 2025 09:42 PM (grNgC)
Feel good show where Koreans stoically await SMOD to hit the Korean Peninsula.
Many were able to get visas to other countries. Dirt-bags hanging around, living it up, and LARPing the worst Epstein has been accused of.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 09:43 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: some dude in a hammock at December 24, 2025 09:35 PM (nhCoE)
This is true. Though usually not indoors.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 09:44 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 24, 2025 09:44 PM (gm9Sb)
Merry Christmas, everybody!
Posted by: Bach In Black at December 24, 2025 09:45 PM (KY9hS)
My cat is outside, doing cat things. He only comes in when it's cold or raining, mr. rough n tough, LOL
Posted by: JQ
You gonna dress him up for Christmas?
Little hat?
Sweater?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 09:46 PM (yreN9)
They do not hesitate to use every tool in the government tool kit. Unlawfully. Meanwhile, “our side” has been too chicken shit to use those tools for what they are designed & intended for, their very Raison Dètre. It is pathetic.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 09:47 PM (5dzh4)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 09:47 PM (2GVsD)
We know some of you (Eris) bought & wrapped presents for your cats & not-cats. It's okay, you can tell us.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 09:48 PM (yreN9)
------------
Hey, AOP -- Wifey was wondering if you had any thoughts or opinions about the following (presumably support it)?:
[Is this old news or the first time this has been formally attempted?]
Not the Bee
@Not_the_Bee
Alberta to officially start collecting signatures for referendum to secede from Canada
x.com/Not_the_Bee/status/
2003593963350163634
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 09:49 PM (LgsNJ)
Ace spending his Christmas Eve investigating a serial killer is kinda depressing.
What are we going to do with this boy?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 09:52 PM (yreN9)
Last night I put in the DVD for Miracle on 34th Street. I’ve seen it many times, and noticed that there was a commentary track by Maureen O’Hara. It was a real treat to listen to.
Listening to Mark Steyn’s 2025 “Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols” right now, before midnight Mass. (www.steynonline.com).
Buon Natale!
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 09:52 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Jingle Ballz at December 24, 2025 09:57 PM (oftw2)
The bird that built the nest is hatch'd therein,
The old of years an hour hath not outrun,
Eternal life to live doth now begin,
The word is dumb, the mirth of heaven doth weep,
Might feeble is, and force doth faintly creep.
O dying souls! behold your living spring!
O dazzled eyes! behold your sun of grace!
Dull ears attend what word this word doth bring!
Up, heavy hearts, with joy your joy embrace!
From death, from dark, from deafness, from despairs,
This life, this light, this word, this joy repairs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 10:07 PM (tgvbd)
And there is one other big source of cash for those generals - all of those blue barrel’s in all of those drug boats.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 09:13 PM (7JH4o)
dealing with the money is usually the easy route. Someone is bankrolling Maduro, someone is bankrolling the cartels and someone is bankrolling the ELN. It sure as Hell isn't Cuba and Russia anymore.
Also since there is a lot of money in that oil and in the cocaine being captured and blowed up in the Gulf, some banks are starting to feel the pinch from not having their cut from laundering it, and some governments are starting to really wonder where the money to cover the losses from graft is comin from.
we have been killing people for all my life and it hasn't worked, besides make a lot of people who aren't related to me really rich. I don't think that approach is going to work this time either.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 11:35 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 11:36 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:49 PM (npFr7)
Don't know why that gave me a chuckle but it did.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)
#metoo
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 03:24 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 03:53 AM (RuTUS)
The Christmas Week In Woke
Stephanie Lundquist-Arora, the Fairfax chapter leader for Independent Women, found that Fairfax County spent $44 million on legal fees between fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2025. She revealed to the Washington Examiner that the school district paid the law firm King & Spalding $980,515.14 between August and September alone. In a FOIA request, she found Fairfax County had a contract paying $1,850 an hour for services rendered in August and November. "Ironically, November is the same month that the district filed Rule 68 in Jane Doe's case to 'save money,'" Lundquist-Arora said.Fairfax County Public School's newest innovation: Claiming that not only do trans boys have the right to use the girls rooms, but non-trans boys who are just gay have that right too, Bigot.
FCPS will pay Jane Doe, represented by America First Legal, nominal damages of $50 and her attorney fees. The case centered on a complaint from Jane Doe that a biological boy was allowed to use the female locker room in West Springfield High School, even though he identified as gay, not as transgender. When Jane Doe complained, she was told to use a single-use restroom. When other female students began to complain on social media, court documents showed the boy wrote an Instagram post, saying, "My counselor and principal both said I'm allowed to go in there, I don't even look at any of you, I go in a stall. You go to a public school, not everything is catered to you." In her latest piece for iWFeatures, Lundquist-Arora wrote, "Cultish trans fervor aside, it doesn't take a legal eagle to know that boys presenting as boys and not even claiming to be transgender are not legally permitted in girls' bathrooms and locker rooms. The male student Jane Doe encountered in the locker room identified as gay, not transgender, according to the lawsuit."Zorhan Mamdani appointed the new chief of the NY Fire Department. Can you guess which boxes she fills? Probably as many as she can. If you guessed the new fire chief would be yet another fat lesbian linebacker like the incompetents that couldn't control the Palisades fires," congratulations -- homophobes.
The Patriot OasisDemocrat candidate for mayor and alcoholic Karen gives cop grief as the cop attempts to get her to take a field sobriety test. Unfortunately, she was not afforded the opportunity to Ride the Lightning. She did not receive a dose of Zeus Juice. The real lesson of Bondi Beach...? The Australian government hasn't done enough to combat "Islamophobia." I agree with the first two thirds of "combat Islamophobia, to be honest. That's the compromise I'm offering. Lefties react to Judge Dugan's conviction: The Nazis purged and arrested judges, too, you know. No, that's not a joke. That's what this guy, a "political theorist," said.
@ThePatriotOasis BREAKING: FedEx wins multibillion-dollar federal delivery contract, uses funds to HIRE foreign workers through the H-1B visa program. CEO Rajesh "Raj" Subramaniam, who was born in India, is facing backlash for firing Americans to hire foreigners. Publicly available immigration data shows a SUBSTANTIAL increase in FedEx’s hiring of foreign workers through the H-1B visa program. Some of the listed salaries for these positions being filled by non-Americans range from about $100,000 to $115,000.
This is beyond the pale. https://t.co/l8DLFbnGJX
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) December 23, 2025
We just passed e-verify in Ohio.
— Rep. Josh Williams (@JoshWilliamsOH) December 23, 2025
If people are hiring illegal aliens, they're breaking state and federal law.
And the media is trying to portray them as the victims. https://t.co/DmUDueeW1w
Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton,
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) December 23, 2025
If you are convinced that torture is taking place at CECOT, El Salvador is ready to cooperate fully.
We are willing to release our entire prison population (including all gang leaders and all those described as “political prisoners”) to any… https://t.co/GKHMUgeZeO
To keep you alive. That’s the point. The point of food stamps is NOT to make you happy and give you whatever you want. It’s to keep you alive and healthy so you don’t cost us even more $$$ when we have to pay for your healthcare. Want other stuff that makes you happy? Get a job. https://t.co/CMsMsYF7yK
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) December 18, 2025
🚨 BOMBSHELL at AmFest: Dead silence from the TPUSA crowd as Tucker Carlson spends his entire speech shilling for Islam
— Reverend Jordan Wells (@WellsJorda89710) December 19, 2025
- Calls Muslims “mostly good”
- Says it’s “evil” to be anti-Islam
- Compares being Muslim to being black (as if it’s not a chosen ideology)
Zero cheers.… pic.twitter.com/eLtWfP7ZOm
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🚨 BOMBSHELL at AmFest: Dead silence from the TPUSA crowd as Tucker Carlson spends his entire speech shilling for Islam
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That's a lie.
Last I checked people who call themselves "reverend" are supposed to obey the 10 Commandments.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2025 06:34 PM (wGK1C)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 06:38 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 06:41 PM (c115l)
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 06:42 PM (CNl8/)
Good Lord, she looks like an actual normal woman and human being. What the fuck did the world do to her?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 24, 2025 06:43 PM (HYKHz)
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 06:43 PM (Slgjz)
Posted by: Abdully al-McAbdulface at December 24, 2025 06:43 PM (0sNs1)
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Is this that "law professor" from Richmond that every NPR story cites?
Posted by: the lower depths at December 24, 2025 06:45 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Chappyman66 at December 24, 2025 06:46 PM (yLpt1)
Good Lord, she looks like an actual normal woman and human being. What the fuck did the world do to her?
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Check out what happened to Elton John over the years. He didn't just get older and fatter. Something else happened. I've seen it happen a lot with Alphabet People and I no longer think it is a coincidence.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 24, 2025 06:47 PM (UdiE9)
And because it's Fairfax County, every member of the 'Independent Women' will vote democrat.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 06:48 PM (aKh6S)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 24, 2025 06:49 PM (O7YUW)
It's not against the law to be stupid but do we have to have shoved down our throats every day? Just because some people get attention does not make them an expert on anything. If they don't make sense I just file it under garbage.
Posted by: Case at December 24, 2025 06:51 PM (G1OIb)
We need a return to rotten vegetables being thrown.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 24, 2025 06:49 PM
#MeToo?
Too soon?
Posted by: Stocks at December 24, 2025 06:52 PM (0sNs1)
Like it being evil to be anti-Islam.
No, Tucker, Islam is a threat to everyone who isn't Muslim. It's a rejection of Christianity.
If you want to be a stupid, suicidal shit leave God out of it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 06:52 PM (fd80v)
so you agree it's "hateful" to object to the Islamification of the US?
Boy some of you "America First" types have some strange ideas about what America is.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 06:53 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 06:53 PM (grNgC)
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FDNY resignations en masse to follow in 3...2...1...
Posted by: Don Black at December 24, 2025 06:53 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 06:53 PM (Vj99u)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 06:54 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 06:54 PM (KDPiq)
“The thing that infuriates me most about Tucker isn’t even the Nick Fuentes interviews or the Gaza takes.
It’s the smug, pompous arrogance of a man who’s never spent a single year in seminary declaring with absolute certainty:
“There are no chosen people.”
Bro, that’s straight-up replacement theology on steroids, and it’s demonic.
God’s covenant with the Jewish people is literally all over Scripture—Genesis 12, Romans 11, forever and ever, amen. Yet Tucker, who can’t even quote a verse correctly, struts around like he’s the final authority on theology while mocking actual pastors who’ve dedicated their entire lives to studying the Word.
He doesn’t just disagree with dispensationalists or Christian Zionists. He acts like he’s smarter than Paul, smarter than Moses, smarter than God Himself.
That level of pride isn’t “edgy” or “based.”
It’s the spirit of Lucifer in a bowtie.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 06:55 PM (7JH4o)
yup. What did Rush call him? Chatsworth something the Third?
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 06:55 PM (1wjle)
'yup. What did Rush call him? Chatsworth something the Third?'
I thought it was Chatsworth Osbourne IV.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 06:56 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 06:56 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Don Black at December 24, 2025 06:56 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 06:56 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 06:56 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 06:55 PM (1wjle)
Chatsworth Osborne III.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 06:56 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 06:57 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 06:57 PM (WHfpM)
that's what I thought but I'm getting "jr." on google
then again, google talks like a fag and it's shit's all retarded
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 06:57 PM (1wjle)
How soon thereafter will the common council pass a bill calling for gun confiscation?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 06:57 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (CNl8/)
Got Fresh Rosemary Focaccia in the oven.
Looking forward to an evening of Jazz LPs and Pinball.
Hope you all have plans for a pleasant Christmas Eve.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (grNgC)
A lot of downer sort of news today. I'm not against reporting it, it is what it is, better to know about it, but man...
Being sort of antisocial, I have trouble following my own advice, but best for people to network, develop parallel resources that do what the government is supposed to do for us, arm yourselves, learn the law...
Including Jewish people. Or maybe especially at this point. The fuckers admit what they're all about.
The diseased communist bastards are coming for us all, including the useful idiots who imagine they're on the winning team.
Holy shit. Some retirement this is turning out to be. I think something awful is coming. Multiple awful things. It's what they do.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (t1fZA)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (0aYVJ)
Something went “boom”, and out went the power in my apartment.
Breakers won’t reset, and maintenance won’t be here for a hour.
… and no, I don’t have candles #notaboyscout 🤦♂️
Posted by: browndog sitting in the dark at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (7d7sD)
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Reminds me of the before and after pics of beautiful teenage girls, who after enduring endless brainwashing by the left look like they rolled around in a junkyard until every loose metal object was shoved into their orifices
It’s so evil and horrific
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (HYKHz)
i think Tucker has "alternate revenue streams"
the one I'm hoping to see collapse is Me-Again Kelly
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (2ef5s)
That is definitely where it came from. Rush mentioned it many times.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 06:59 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 07:00 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (1wjle)
My example that guys will still bang someone they really dislike.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:00 PM (KDPiq)
oof. well, if you have a phone, at least you have something to read.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:00 PM (1wjle)
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I think this is the basis for his worldview.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 07:00 PM (CTokg)
It’s so evil and horrific
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (HYKHz)
Hell, Rachel Madcow was once a pretty young woman. Now she is Harriet Potter.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 07:00 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: GWB at December 24, 2025 07:01 PM (8xNfY)
meh, Me-Again has always been "pretty in theory." If you run the numbers, a computer would tell you she's attractive. But I never actually wanted to throw dick at her.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:01 PM (1wjle)
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Ok. That is the second stupidest thing I've read today.
Look at her eyebrows, eyelashes, ear buds and probably weaves or extensions.
Posted by: clarence at December 24, 2025 07:02 PM (MXMX4)
I always keep one of those candles they sell in the Mexican Food Section for just such an emergency.
The tall glass ones with Mary, Jesus or a random Saint on them.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:02 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 07:02 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Braenyard -"
so many different kinds of "oh hell yes, spot-on!"
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 07:02 PM (Cjt/F)
i'm listening to the podcast now.
Posted by: ace
Read it last night. Only thing for me is his age timeline. He was 20 in '47. That makes him 18 when the war ended in 45. 17 in 1943. Yet he supposedly went thru basic & medical training and then saw enough combat that he had PTSD?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:02 PM (c115l)
i had some of those but I tossed them the last time I moved. I should get more. You never realize how much you need candles until you realize you need candles.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:03 PM (1wjle)
What if you were straight, though?
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:03 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Archer at December 24, 2025 07:03 PM (YGRGv)
But those Mexican Food Aisle Candles...those I can remember to buy.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:04 PM (grNgC)
I understand not wanting to put in the effort but if it was offered I don't see you turning it down.
( no pancakes for her though)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:04 PM (KDPiq)
Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. He was played by Steven Franken, an actor who had the look. He also played the murderer in a Perry Mason episode, with Julia Adams.
That was one were Perry apparently lost the case at trial and his client was sentenced to the gas chamber. Perry was able to find the real killer, ol' Chatsworth at the last minute.
He dressed up like a woman to do the murder.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 07:04 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: The Truth at December 24, 2025 07:04 PM (R/m4+)
yeah but that seems like a documented fact, right? And supposedly he got caught in a collapsed Japanese cave. who knows what that would do.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:04 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (1wjle)
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Disappointed with her. She has lost what little credibility she had with me. She blew smoke up Bari Weiss' ass in October and now says she "has no experience in television." True back in October too you know, Megyn.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 07:04 PM (CTokg)
Which show is more unfunny, I Love Lucy or Honeymooners?
Honeymooners Christmas episode, colorized:
https://is.gd/FYVemj
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:04 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:00 PM (1wjle)
Thank the heavens for wireless connectivity as I lost my WiFi when the power went
… hey … miracle of miracles, maintenance is here 🎉
Now can they solve the issue
#staytuned
Posted by: browndog sitting in the dark at December 24, 2025 07:05 PM (7d7sD)
'If voter fraud is cleaned up then we'll know, much better, where we stand as a Republic.'
If it is, it will be after a fight. The 'Rat leaders have telegraphed that they'll abuse their power and perpetrate outright violence to hold their territory.
Their voters keep right on rubber stamping that.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 07:05 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: garrett
well, as straight men could tell you, straight men like women with womanly bodies
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:05 PM (1wjle)
He was on Okinawa. They saw some serious shit. A fellow around here, I've mentioned here over the years, "Ol' Red" we called him, was at Okinawa.
The stories he could tell about what went on there, well, it was awful.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 07:06 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 07:06 PM (wVcYX)
Tucker's very fond of the "absolute certainty" shtick. He likes to make a quasi-declarative statement then follow it up with a superlative, almost as an afterthought, as if he's suddenly given it more conscientious thought.
This comedian's impersonation nails him.
https://tinyurl.com/wkemscxh
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 07:06 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 07:06 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:03 PM (grN
Damn garrett. One of your best LOL: be prepared for return fire at a later date.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:07 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 24, 2025 07:07 PM (UdiE9)
I will have you know that you just ruined 14 year old Keifer Sutherlands Christmas.
(I always laugh at that old gag)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:07 PM (grNgC)
Garrett's Pimp Hand is Strong, even during Christmas.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:08 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 07:08 PM (wVcYX)
she's a lefty feminist, always has been. she's really letting women down right now by changing all of her opinions on Bari Weiss-- and defending CBS "news" -- based on a current feud.
It's... very feminine.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:08 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 07:08 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Count de Monet
Something something blue flame.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 07:09 PM (mlg/3)
'She blew smoke up Bari Weiss' ass in October and now says she "has no experience in television."'
Credibility hinges on smoke in Bari Weiss' ass?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 07:09 PM (fd80v)
With the likelihood of death.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 07:10 PM (NwnyJ)
When you make one of those comments, you have an obligation to put your name at the TOP of the comment, so I know to swallow my wine before I read it.
Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 07:10 PM (FRS+s)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 07:10 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 24, 2025 07:07 PM (UdiE9)
*side eyes and silently backs out of the room*
Posted by: Ric Gillespie, CEO TIGHAR at December 24, 2025 07:11 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:11 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: ace
He was born Oct 15, 1927.
Oct 15, 1945 was when he turned 18.
WWII ended September 2, 1945. He wasn't 18 yet.
When did he enter the military? When was basic and then M.O.S. training as a medic?
I'm not saying he wasn't the killer, but his timeline is tight.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:11 PM (c115l)
It would be like going to bat for Stephen Glass and the NYT.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:11 PM (grNgC)
I was wrong, it's awful
I think I just knew about fifteen seconds of the song from commercial bumpers
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:11 PM (1wjle)
right but i'm saying is that all known as documented facts from his military records? Like, the amateur sleuth isn't making that up or speculating about that. He has his records.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:13 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: clarence at December 24, 2025 07:13 PM (MXMX4)
This Zodiac/Black Dahlia suspect theory sounds pretty good. The guy was trying to solve the Zodiac code, close to brute forcing as I read it, and came up with a name that turned out to be one of the main suspects in the Black Dahlia case, which wasn't released to the public.
The suspect died of cancer back '92, and before he died did this disturbing painting of a woman apparently cut off at the torso. The name "Elizabeth" and also the word "Zodiac" were sort of hidden in the background, they claim.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 07:13 PM (w6EFb)
It is barely behind the Muppet Christmas Movie as far as I am concerned. Two of the best versions of the tale, imo.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:13 PM (grNgC)
btw i actually listened to all of Paul McCartney's Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime
I was wrong, it's awful
Posted by: ace
It's the fuckin worst!
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:13 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:14 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 24, 2025 07:15 PM (b4o9z)
Would they have made a 16 year old a medic because that's the age he would have had to be.unless he lied about his age like Audie Murphy
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:15 PM (KDPiq)
He was born Oct 15, 1927.
Oct 15, 1945 was when he turned 18.
WWII ended September 2, 1945. He wasn't 18 yet.
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IIRC the average age of soldiers sent into actual combat in WW2 was a lot higher than in Vietnam. Because we had both a lot of volunteers and a draft that wasn't a joke, there was no need to throw kids into frontline combat.
The fact that the stories involve filmic details like "being trapped in Japanese caves" sounds like total bullshit to me. I haven't looked into this story myself, but I've read a lot of military history. Maybe this is real, but it sounds like it's been written as the plot to a pulp novel.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 24, 2025 07:15 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 07:15 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 07:16 PM (aKh6S)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 07:16 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 24, 2025 07:15 PM (b4o9z)
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Yeah, I tried watching that movie but turned it off after 30 minutes or so.
The television show Millennium did an episode that was clearly inspired by the Zodiac killer. It was somewhat disturbing.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 07:17 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 24, 2025 07:17 PM (IhIKR)
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Do we have his records, or just the "sleuth"? Maybe the sleuth is concealing their evidence where Candance keeps her evidence against Brigitte Macron.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 24, 2025 07:17 PM (UdiE9)
It is incredibly well done.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:18 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Fist bump!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 07:18 PM (2ef5s)
Just part of it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 06:53 PM (Vj99u)
One microsecond spent shilling for islam means an eternity shilling for Satan.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:19 PM (npFr7)
literally one of my favorite movies
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:20 PM (1wjle)
My limited opinions on the Beatles.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:20 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 07:20 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Count de Monet
You bought the wrong mop!
Posted by: MkY at December 24, 2025 07:20 PM (q6tQZ)
no, they have the records. They pulled them during the grand jury investigation of the murder, and those are available. They have his psych reports and stuff. Cops were looking at him as a suspect in the Black Dahlia case and could never eliminate him as a suspect. (nor definitely prove he had done it.)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:21 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 07:21 PM (aKh6S)
Here's an NY Post article on this:
https://is.gd/mxle5w
The suspect's military records are known, not speculation. He was in the first invasion wave at Okinawa.
He wanted to become a surgeon, but they turned him down to what they call PTSD now. His hands shook, and he had recurring dreams and displayed aggression. Discharged from the Navy on disability because of all that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 07:21 PM (w6EFb)
Will, so much for the big tent.
Posted by: Sergeant Major at December 24, 2025 07:21 PM (PbU6T)
Searching through old ads and other period information, this investigator determined the one that was in the most likely location for the black dahlia killer to have used - the Zodiac Motel.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 07:21 PM (7JH4o)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:22 PM (KDPiq)
that's a neat detail
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:22 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2025 07:22 PM (+mUZM)
Power is restored, but I’m without a stove through Monday
Life could be worse, at least I have my meal prep dinners that can be nuked to tide me through
It appears the Apollo spacecraft had more amperage available to run electronics and such than my apartment does
Posted by: browndog sitting in the dark at December 24, 2025 07:22 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:02 PM (c115l)
Some guys lied about their age so they could enlist.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:22 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: What the actual fucking fuck? at December 24, 2025 07:23 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: MkY at December 24, 2025 07:25 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 24, 2025 07:25 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: ace
It's very possible it's him. The other thing that's strange, he killed her in '47 and then nothing for the next 21 years. 1968. Serial killers generally don't wait that long between kills.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:25 PM (c115l)
Posted by: Opinion fact
Costner's best film. 'Citizen X' is, IMO, the best serial killer movie. Though, 'Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer' is very disturbing.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 07:26 PM (aKh6S)
That would have been March 1945 . He would have just turned 17 five months earlier.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:26 PM (KDPiq)
Everything Paul McCartney ever touched.......
I liked Mull of Kintyre. It's a good drinking song.
Posted by: Case at December 24, 2025 07:27 PM (G1OIb)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 07:28 PM (7JH4o)
oh we don't know that!!!
He claimed he killed 35 people though Zodiac only killed five people (and seriously stabbed two more).
Maybe he did a lot of murders in between.
Also, he fled LA when he was a suspect in the Dahlia case and went to Chicago and Atlanta and Kansas. I betcha cops in those states are now looking at unsolved murders in the late forties and in the fifties.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:28 PM (1wjle)
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Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 24, 2025 07:30 PM (WL2lA)
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🎄Twelve Days of Madness (as serialized on AOS last year)
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🎄Santa, Dear Friends
For those who may have come to doubt the old elf (text, ill.)
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🎄Journey to Bethlehem
A simple trip to pay the taxes becomes a life-or-death nightmare for a new family
A cartoon-illustrated take on the Nativity story
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🎄Mindful Webworkshop Episode #16 - Christmas
A politically incorrect and culturally inappropriate Christmas show - pop song parodies and original tunes sure to put coal in my stocking. From back in 2016. (vid 11:02)
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That should hold you for twelve days.
Posted by: mindful webworker - jingle them bells at December 24, 2025 07:30 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: ace
That's true. That's very possible.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:30 PM (c115l)
Posted by: C. Tarlson at December 24, 2025 07:30 PM (maMpM)
On that tangent the percentage of homosexual serial killers is far greater than their overall percentage of the population.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:30 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: What the actual fucking fuck? at December 24, 2025 07:23 PM (TbWk/)
Well, that is asking a lot.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 07:30 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: What the actual fucking fuck? at December 24, 2025 07:23 PM (TbWk/)
Close.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 07:31 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 07:31 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:32 PM (KDPiq)
It begs the question: Why don't we have "serial killers" anymore?
Or do we?
I wonder if police work is so inept, so unimaginative, and so callous today that a serial killer would go unnoticed.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:34 PM (yreN9)
CEO Rajesh "Raj" Subramaniam, who was born in India, is facing backlash for firing Americans to hire foreigners.
Publicly available immigration data shows a SUBSTANTIAL increase in FedEx�s hiring of foreign workers through the H-1B visa program.
Some of the listed salaries for these positions being filled by non-Americans range from about $100,000 to $115,000.
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Unlike everyone else here, I didn't have a problem with Luigi and the United Healthcare CEO. Pretty much due to the shit like the above.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 24, 2025 07:34 PM (Vh9CX)
Damn garrett. One of your best LOL: be prepared for return fire at a later date.
Posted by: Opinion fact
A number of years ago, i was fresh out of spine surgery with a brand new titanium disk between L5 and S0. Had maybe 8 or 10 staples in my lower abdomen as theynwent in throught front. Reading the smart military blog between naps and garret was on one his legendary snark rolls. Damned near tore two staples laughing at the shit posts he made that day.
Keep it up, dude. In spite of the harrassment, you're what helps make this place family.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 07:34 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:34 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 07:34 PM (3uBP9)
Steve Franken played the characters of Chatsworth Osbourne, Jr. and Winthrop von Money VIII.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent
He was a murderer on Perry Mason and an arsonist on Barney Miller.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 07:34 PM (pkeXY)
You cant
You fucked up and trusted the system that promoted you to failure.
It is called the Peter Principle as you do not have a Peter.
hahaha
It is called the Peter Principle becuase a man named Larry Peter noticed that organization promoted people out of the way so that in the end they were out of the way but were failures.
You failed bitch.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 07:35 PM (gbOdA)
Just part of it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 06:53 PM (Vj99u)
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OK, here's 32 seconds of VDH's introduction to his take down of Carlson.
https://tinyurl.com/b23yhyrs
Here's VDH's takedown of Tucker Carlson;
There is a 1:27second quote of Tucker's idiocy before VDH begins.
Push up to 1:27 if you choose.
https://tinyurl.com/fr7z74b5
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 07:36 PM (2ef5s)
Quick, what's the harshest metal song to slay the McCartney wyrm?!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 07:37 PM (kpS4V)
She's a Knut BUT a) only a complete fool would consent to field sobriety tests and they are typically not required (breathalyzer might be a different story) and b) declining said field sobriety tests (on its own) is typically not sufficient probable cause for an arrest. But she's still a self-important bitch and I have no pity.
Posted by: Driving While an Idiot at December 24, 2025 07:38 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:39 PM (grNgC)
Brother and fam are late. Me and -#1 son getting schnockered.
ooops.
Posted by: nurse ratched
Where's my damned cat nip?
-Lucy the fink
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 07:40 PM (QVmho)
Quick, what's the harshest metal song to slay the McCartney wyrm?!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 07:37 PM (kpS4V)
Slayer Raining Blood?
Posted by: You did say slay at December 24, 2025 07:40 PM (TbWk/)
BRING BACK THE BOMB :
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=YWPCGoO4620
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:40 PM (grNgC)
Loved the top comment:
"I am 46, it is not a phase Mom."
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 07:43 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 07:51 PM (MvI35)
It begs the question: Why don't we have "serial killers" anymore?
Or do we?
I wonder if police work is so inept, so unimaginative, and so callous today that a serial killer would go unnoticed.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:34 PM (yreN9)
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I remember hearing that there are about +200 serial killers around the USA at any point in time.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 24, 2025 07:52 PM (Vh9CX)
The field sobriety test and other observations are what gives him probable cause to measure BAC with a breathalyzer or blood draw. She ain’t gettin out of nothing. You have to submit to a breathalyzer or blood draw. That’s “implied consent” by virtue of you accepting a DL.
A field sobriety test is not required, if you’re not drunk then demand a breathalyzer or blood draw and have an attorney on speed dial. Technically speaking it is entirely possible to fail a field sobriety test even though no alcohol is in your system.
I’d like to know how many of these whack job bitches are on prescription tranquilizers and “mood elevators” and all that bullshit. They should be prohibited from operating heavy machinery, cars, and government.
This Is Your Government On Drugs <—- you are here
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM (aZxh/)
That was just some bullshit to quiet the peasants. In reality it’s nothing. Was it even implemented? Even if it was it’s nothing compared to the cost savings. Pay $100k one time to save $50-75k a year for 6 years. Deal of a lifetime.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 07:56 PM (MvI35)
“There are no chosen people.”
Bro, that’s straight-up replacement theology on steroids, and it’s demonic.
Listening to Christians ceaselessly advocate for Jews, who rejected Christ, as the chosen people - still - despite that rejection is pretty tedious. Modern Christians don't believe in much of anything, and it shows. Toleration is a fine thing. But Christians weren't always so casual about the rejection of Christ. Christians from pretty much any other era would not recognize the thin soup that the religion has become. No point in believing if it this kind of intrafaith, ecumenical mush.
Posted by: hard pass at December 24, 2025 08:01 PM (aYB33)
Posted by: DanMan at December 24, 2025 08:33 PM (8uzBS)
After the Bruen decision said that states have to actually allow citizens to carry weapons, Hawaii passed laws to allow it but not really. They made it illegal to carry weapons in public places such as grocery stores. Clearly trying to make it impossible to carry except maybe inside your own house.
There's a challenge, Wolford v. Lopez, which has reached the Supreme Court. It basically says Hawaii isn't really complying.
The state of Hawaii is arguing that back when it was a kingdom, and not a part of the United States, it didn't let peasants have weapons; therefore, it is part of Hawaii's culture to forbid the citizens from having weapons, so they shouldn't be forced to grant any Second Amendment rights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A86IvqwM4gc
Posted by: mr_jack at December 24, 2025 08:49 PM (LNPSJ)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 07:09 PM (fd80v)
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Not at all. Credibility depends on being consistent; in approving of Bari's takeover in October but then taking weak ass potshots at her in December.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 09:12 PM (m6HS6)
“There are no chosen people.”
Bro, that’s straight-up replacement theology on steroids, and it’s demonic.
God’s covenant with the Jewish people is literally all over Scripture—Genesis 12, Romans 11, forever and ever, amen. Yet Tucker... struts around like he’s the final authority on theology while mocking actual pastors who’ve dedicated their entire lives to studying the Word.
He doesn’t just disagree with dispensationalists or Christian Zionists. He acts like he’s smarter than Paul, smarter than Moses, smarter than God Himself.
That level of pride isn’t “edgy” or “based.”
It’s the spirit of Lucifer in a bowtie.”
You do realize that Dispensationalism didn't even exist until the 19th Century, and Tucker's belief that "Israel" in the Bible means "people who accept Jesus as the Messiah" was the official theology of the Church for 1800 years?! Tucker is just stating the normal Christian belief. It is this nonsense that Jews who reject Christ are "chosen" that is demonic.
Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 24, 2025 11:38 PM (YINx+)
Posted by: susan harms at December 25, 2025 06:58 AM (Kkd7F)
Posted by: werewife at December 25, 2025 10:17 AM (5ayY3)
Charlottesville, VA Disables Citywide Crime Cameras to Help Illegal Alien Criminals Evade the Law
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- The City of Charlottesville will not move forward with the Flock Safety license plate reader system following the conclusion of a yearlong pilot program, despite reported success in helping police solve crimes. City Council decided during its meeting on Monday, citing concerns largely outside the city's control. "I just think that the concerns are much bigger than us," Charlottesville Police Chief Michael Kochis said. Over the 12-month pilot period, the Charlottesville Police Department gathered feedback from community members on the use of the Flock camera system. "Most of the feedback we got was very positive from folks in the community. That being said, there were some concerns," Kochis said. Among the primary concerns were how data collected by Flock could potentially be accessed or used beyond the city's control, including fears it could be obtained by federal agencies for unintended purposes, such as tracking undocumented immigrants. "The big concerns continue to come up from mostly policymakers that, you know, are they the federal government or the administration in D.C. could get access to it," Kochis said. Despite those concerns, Kochis said the system proved effective during the pilot program. "It's helped us solve our homicide in the city. It has helped us recover a missing child. It has helped us recover missing people. It does help us recover stolen cars in time frames that actually have meaning," he said.But fuck American citizens, the only ones who matter are foreign criminals.
🚨Charlottesville ends use of Flock cameras d/t fear data will be used by @ICEgov to track illegal immigrants
— ((( C-Ville🫧 ))) (@CvilleBubble) December 21, 2025
The tech was instrumental in finding Brown/MIT killer
In one year in C'ville, Flock helped solve a murder, find missing persons, & recover stolen cars, according to… pic.twitter.com/H245cKF6p2
BREAKING: Walid Saadaoui, Amar Hussein, and Bilel Saadaoui, CONVICTED in lSlS t*rror plot which police say could’ve become “the deadliest t*rrorist attack in UK history.”
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 24, 2025
They planned to target the Jewish community and m*rder responding police in a mass casualty event.
The UK… pic.twitter.com/m3AkdeYQaA
Two migrants from Afghanistan have been convicted in London for being part of a prolific burglary and theft campaign targeting gay men on Grindr. Rahmad Khan Mohammadi, 23 and Mohammed Bilal Hotak, 21, met with victims on the gay app to steal their property.
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 23, 2025
Mohammadi was… pic.twitter.com/QBpp333nDI
This is Judge Joy Kennedy
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 23, 2025
Earlier this month, she lowered the bail for a repeat violent offender to $5k in Cleveland
5 days later, he kiIIed Ben McComas pic.twitter.com/bSDadGElI1
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: neverrenoughcaffeine at December 24, 2025 05:33 PM (leOJv)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (leOJv)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Al Shabbah at December 24, 2025 05:35 PM (vh3n1)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 24, 2025 05:35 PM (cxFcK)
None of them.
Posted by: Accomack at December 24, 2025 05:37 PM (77Bgk)
Meh. I am OK with this, regardless of the impetus.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:37 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Caf at December 24, 2025 05:38 PM (qS/Xm)
Posted by: The Phantom Pooper at December 24, 2025 05:38 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:38 PM (abIsI)
DOJ announced that I to just recovered another ONE MILLION FILES !
Hard to believe that to believe than number of files could have been overlooked? Until now. So a most Merry Christmas to all
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 24, 2025 05:39 PM (4NS/v)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 05:40 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 05:40 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 24, 2025 05:40 PM (3ZUWJ)
Meh. I am OK with this, regardless of the impetus.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:37 PM (dK+Kv)
Yeah. I'm old enough to remember when we thought it was a bad idea for the government to have cameras everywhere, both as a matter of the nefarious purposes they'd use them for, and the expense.
You know, observing how tyrannies like Britain use them.
Posted by: Methos at December 24, 2025 05:41 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 05:42 PM (Kt19C)
You know, observing how tyrannies like Britain use them.
Posted by: Methos at December 24, 2025 05:41 PM (vSvIl)
It's one reason for lazy, ineffective policing. Instead of prevention by presence and the occasional hickory shampoos, you get armored car riding, no-knock dog shooting, ass-sitting video-watching, investigation after the bodies are cold "policing."
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:44 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 05:45 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Vanishingly Rare Foreign Youkai at December 24, 2025 05:46 PM (eeua8)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 24, 2025 05:47 PM (PWcY+)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 24, 2025 05:47 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 24, 2025 05:48 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Desperate For Excitement at December 24, 2025 05:48 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 05:50 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 05:53 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 24, 2025 05:53 PM (ph+d0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 05:53 PM (tgvbd)
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They'll start using them again when they find out they can track ICE with them.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 24, 2025 05:54 PM (PWcY+)
Posted by: Nannies, Too at December 24, 2025 05:54 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 05:54 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 05:54 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 24, 2025 05:54 PM (CWTWj)
If you don't see illegals committing crimes then those crimes do not exist.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2025 05:56 PM (0N4FZ)
If you don't see illegals committing crimes then those crimes do not exist.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2025 05:56 PM (0N4FZ)
And neither do the victims...right?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 05:56 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Nannies, Too! at December 24, 2025 05:56 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 05:56 PM (ynpvh)
Sanctuary city?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:58 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: SciVo at December 24, 2025 06:00 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 06:00 PM (Ia/+0)
What this actually means is that they will keep the cameras on, if one of their brownshirts goes wilding, oops! we don't have cameras anymore!, if you do anything, "WE GOT YOU!". But they will say they've "disabled" them.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 06:02 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 24, 2025 06:03 PM (b4o9z)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 24, 2025 06:03 PM (b4o9z)
Well, it's no blaster.
Posted by: Han Solo at December 24, 2025 06:04 PM (ynpvh)
All of them should be treated as such.
Their Legislatures and Executives should be forcefully disbanded and the members should be jailed.
Their Statehood should be suspended until they have been replaced with properly functioning institutions.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 06:05 PM (grNgC)
Meh. I am OK with this, regardless of the impetus.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
You mean you want your privacy back?
Can't have that now, can we?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 06:10 PM (pkeXY)
Just think of the Social Justice we'd have when that happens!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 06:11 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 06:13 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 06:14 PM (COQGW)
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Sounds like an entendre but actually it's a double truth.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 06:16 PM (2ef5s)
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That has to be the stupidest thing I've read all day.
Posted by: clarence at December 24, 2025 06:16 PM (MXMX4)
'Every single Sanctuary City and State is in active Rebellion against the US Constitutional Republic.'
Thank you. This in insurrection, worthy of implementation of an insurrection act. Treating it as a joke is horseshit.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 06:16 PM (fd80v)
There's nothing that possibly could go wrong with Charlottesville's camera turn-off plan. Kumbaya, even.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 06:17 PM (wVcYX)
:sigh: I used to be against the panopticon security state, cameras everywhere, snooping constantly for silly traffic violations and the revenue that generated.
But I realize, that only works in, what do they call it, the "high trust society" like we used to have. The Before Time before we started importing 3rd world shit hole populations willy nilly. When you've got a society where any random lunatic may knock some grandma over the head with 2x4 with nails in it, well, my high trust ideal no longer works.
Damn it all to hell.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 06:17 PM (w6EFb)
That bitch Terry McAwful should be in the can along with his redcaps and bullies on the State Police.
Posted by: Travesty of Justice at December 24, 2025 06:18 PM (oftw2)
Do you hate, or do you meta-hate?
Or, put more fully: Do you hatwe the criminal who actually committed the crime -- or do you hate the leftist judges, politicians and citizens who intentionally released this soulles crime-bot into the community to wreak havoc on the fellow citizens?
Personally, I meta-hate, because I do not accord the criminals any shred of humanity, so there's nothing to hate, just like you can't hate a cheetah or a rabid dog.
Posted by: zombie at December 24, 2025 06:18 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 06:20 PM (wVcYX)
Heh. A South Carolina Man made the Daily Mail:
https://is.gd/UN2trh
Just over the river in Spartanburg County, this guy stole a police car and went on a joyride, and drunk to boot. He threw a fit before the judge and threatened to call Trump on the judge.
According to his mother, he ain't right in the head.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 06:21 PM (w6EFb)
'Do you hate the criminal who actually committed the crime -- or do you hate the leftist judges, politicians and citizens who intentionally released this soulless crime-bot into the community to wreak havoc?'
I have enough hate for all of them. That's why my punishment for them is identical.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 06:21 PM (fd80v)
The excuse was intersectionality. Remember? Poor babies, how would they know they can't chase down a grown women for sex? And then it because broader & began to cover awful crimes & more people of certain 'types' - not just those who came illegally over the border but also those with relatives chairing LWVs units in many states.
And don't try to publicly fight back. You'll be next to be charged with a ridiculous summary offense or "almost a hate crime" with substantial fees and affect on jobs.
Pandora's box. They f'ed up and unless you put on the stage show (with mob blessings, Black and White alike) as Frank Rizzo once did in Philly, you're not going to get the towns and cities back to where they once were.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 06:25 PM (NFX2v)
I hate both. I hate bullies and that's what both are but in different ways.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 06:25 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Randolph Duke at December 24, 2025 06:25 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 06:26 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Fairfax County at December 24, 2025 06:26 PM (7vtxe)
They send men into womens prison.
They have drag queens in study hall.
They may not want to bang your children but they will send them to those that will.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 06:27 PM (gbOdA)
Self abuse.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 06:27 PM (NwnyJ)
According to his mother, he ain't right in the head.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 06:21 PM (w6EFb)
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Just a good ol' boy, never meaning no harm...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 06:28 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 06:29 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 06:29 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 06:30 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 06:30 PM (KDPiq)
'One would think (and they'd probably be wrong) that people would have enough of this shit.
Self abuse.'
Leftists make it a suicide mission to do anything about it, destroying anyone who tries.
I could see it getting bad enough to want to do it anyway.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 06:31 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 24, 2025 06:31 PM (IX8iX)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 06:29 PM (Ia/+0)
UVA (Charlottesville) has one of the most-respected law school in the country. I know more than one of their law school grads, from years past. Gives one an indication of the lawyers being loosed on America.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 24, 2025 06:32 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 06:32 PM (KDPiq)
'Squat Guat' is just as descriptive and succinct as well.
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 24, 2025 06:34 PM (LdBR/)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 24, 2025 06:34 PM (1ah2V)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 24, 2025 06:31 PM (IX8iX)
Mine worked great. I could jump stuff, including a cat and a dog, a whole dog house. Also had sparks. It would go a long ways. Worked better without kneival on, but he helped it to pop wheelies.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 06:35 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 06:35 PM (fd80v)
No, don't make waves, it'll work out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 06:35 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 06:37 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 24, 2025 06:37 PM (LdBR/)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 06:39 PM (Ia/+0)
'UVA (Charlottesville) has one of the most-respected law school in the country. I know more than one of their law school grads, from years past.'
I'd be more impressed if I regarded officers of the court as anything more than colluders in a scam to keep the leftists and their friends in power.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 06:39 PM (fd80v)
Heh, one of the weather guys at GSP tries to be literary and cute sometimes with his forecasts. He started it off at noon today with "'Twas the day before Christmas and all through the house, the AC is needed, 'cause we live in the South".
I topped out at 79F today.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 06:39 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 06:40 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 06:40 PM (Ia/+0)
'Hardly a day goes by now some Black guy doesn't kill a older white woman'
Yeah. Those are some brave motherfuckers. I'm surprised they're not going after toddlers.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 06:41 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 06:43 PM (c115l)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 06:41 PM (fd8
That was years ago where someone at the Mall of America threw the toddler off one of the upper balconies.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 06:43 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 06:44 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 06:45 PM (KDPiq)
Yeah, that.
Posted by: Chappyman66 at December 24, 2025 06:47 PM (yLpt1)
I think most Law Schools turned into Cultural Marxist Seminaries, probably don't even teach the Constitution anymore
Posted by: Skip
Just like the Hippocratic oath.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 06:49 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 06:53 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 06:54 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: IronDave at December 24, 2025 06:57 PM (K6UoY)
Posted by: Boondocks at December 24, 2025 07:47 PM (retOh)
Do you hate, or do you meta-hate?
Posted by: zombie at December 24, 2025 06:18 PM
It's cool to hate.
YouTube: https://bit.ly/49s3V2s
Posted by: The Offspring at December 24, 2025 08:12 PM (P5BPp)
We should all be against their use.
Posted by: Max Entropy at December 25, 2025 10:03 PM (Tw86Z)
The Games We Used to Play Open Thread
So I did this post as an open thread for Christmas, but then didn't like the reduction of the holiday to its commercialized aspect.
But I think it's okay if I post it on Christmas Eve, maybe? "For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself." -- A Christmas Carol Does that cover me?Board games of the 70s, including the one where you have to escape from the sinking Titanic. I have it cued up to that one but feel free to check out the others. Stay Alive -- the survival game. I never understood the appeal of this one. Mousetrap. I tried to make the trap work -- I didn't bother playing, just assembling the trap -- and I was disappointed. I don't remember making the Rube Goldberg contraption actually work. The classic -- ? -- Connect Four commercial. Bermuda Triangle game commercial. A how-to-play for Bermuda Triangle. Merlin commercial one. Merlin commercial Two. This song continues as an earworm in my head. Simon in the 70s, with Vincent Price as the pitchman. Simon in the 80s and the 90s. You can tell it's the 90s because now Simon is RADICAL! Stop Thief!, after the end of a Norelco commercial. And of course: Mattel's handheld electronic games, including football.
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— Martin Walsh (@martinwalsh__) December 23, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 04:23 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 04:24 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 24, 2025 04:24 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 04:25 PM (vFG9F)
Does that cover me?
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Works for me.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 24, 2025 04:26 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 04:27 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 24, 2025 04:27 PM (LdBR/)
We were reliably told that we had planted evidence. What has happened to our people on the inside?!
Posted by: Joe "The Intern Hunter" Scarborough at December 24, 2025 04:28 PM (mexfo)
https://tinyurl.com/3y26h9ff
with the video here:
https://tinyurl.com/4b6j8rxu
I don't know why it works, but it works.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 24, 2025 04:28 PM (pIfcn)
One time we played it (ma and 3 siblings), and got in such a fight, that my mom threw out the game.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:28 PM (NuV6c)
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Maybe you left out a key step. I was able to get the Rube Goldberg contraption to work OK. It was a bit janky, but it would do the job.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 04:28 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:29 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 04:29 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 04:25 PM (vFG9F)
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Played a lot of Stratego when I was kid. My sisters preferred "The Game of Life". The wheel went "WWwwwwzzzzzzz"
Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 04:29 PM (rj6Yv)
— Scott Adams, How the Gamesman Began, p. 51
One of these days I need to finish one of his games. They were always fun and there are emulators available
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 04:30 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 24, 2025 04:30 PM (5yDGQ)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:30 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at December 24, 2025 04:30 PM (zQLjY)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 04:31 PM (2vrAX)
MERRY CHRISTMAS, YA FILTHY IDIOT!
Love of course to the Horde this Christmas. I miss this place, but full-time work plus a side gig has its price.
Posted by: Catherine at December 24, 2025 04:31 PM (ZSsrh)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:31 PM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 04:32 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 04:32 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 04:32 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at December 24, 2025 04:30 PM (zQLjY)
Well that fell flat.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 24, 2025 04:32 PM (zBIzS)
I simply get bored, really quickly, and it turns into a chore for me to pretend to be interested.
Except Pictionary. I am good at that.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 04:33 PM (0aYVJ)
Those were really lame, even for the '70's.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:34 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: Rachel Corrie
>>Well that fell flat.
Can we interest you in a Tonka toy, Rachel?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:34 PM (NuV6c)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
Sandra Bullock looked hot in that movie.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:34 PM (abIsI)
I liked managing the property deeds, so that was my job.
The rule was Loser Puts Up the Game.
Posted by: sal at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (f+FmA)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:34 PM (COQGW)
==
Tiny felt footballs.
Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:30 PM (abIsI)
That's a gateway game to Russian roulette, you know.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (COQGW)
Dayum! It's cold out there. Four below zero, and snowing lightly, and a breeze, too. Too flippin' cold for me to want to fire up the snow blower. Put the #1 Suburban into 4High, and ran back and forth to make tracks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (CNl8/)
I spent more time on that console than any other device in my life. I'd rather play Combat than Fortnite.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:36 PM (NuV6c)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 04:36 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:36 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 04:36 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 04:37 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (dGdfE)
Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (/xmMU)
Nice. I still have a Playstation I and II.
I sold my Sega Genesis and all its components and games years ago. Big mistake. Apparently that sealed Final Fantasy that I included in the package was worth more than half a dozen of the consoles.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (grNgC)
Then, there was Tic-Tac-Toe, using sticks to mark the dirt.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (abIsI)
One time we played it (ma and 3 siblings), and got in such a fight, that my mom threw out the game.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:28 PM (NuV6c)
A few years back, Target had a version that was labeled "Now, With Crushing Debt!"
Always regretted not buying that--it was a one-season offering.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (dGdfE)
Mumbledy, mumbledy Peg Bundy. Why, yes, I would.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (CNl8/)
I recall either Joe Mannix or YD commenting about how their Monopoly games always ended in violence. This was some years ago.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (0aYVJ)
Dayum! It's cold out there. Four below zero, and snowing lightly, and a breeze, too. Too flippin' cold for me to want to fire up the snow blower. Put the #1 Suburban into 4High, and ran back and forth to make tracks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (npFr7)
High today in AJ is 71.
I saw you plan to travel after Christmas. Safe journey!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (QGaXH)
Look back now and it looks like a ridiculous football game that no kid would play with in today's world.
Posted by: Jackson at December 24, 2025 04:40 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (abIsI)
He was quite wise no matter his BAC.
Posted by: Catherine at December 24, 2025 04:40 PM (ZSsrh)
Posted by: Zombie Gunnery Sergeant Hartman at December 24, 2025 04:40 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: FollyHerself at December 24, 2025 04:40 PM (dyewR)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 04:41 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 04:41 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Mark1971
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Are you talking about fun or hours required?
Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 24, 2025 04:41 PM (/xmMU)
Good Memories!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (QGaXH)
It was based on commodities trading and the goal was to corner the market.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (XeU6L)
You had toes? LUXURY!
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: Jackson at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (J9q9v)
-Jim Cramer
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:43 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 24, 2025 04:41 PM (/xmMU)
LOL. My cousins and I played a game of Axis and Allies that started in early afternoon and went to 6 am the next morning.
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 04:43 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:43 PM (abIsI)
If you all don't have a version of Wits and Wagers, ala the fair Trivial Pursuit game, b/c it's not what you know, it's who you gamble on, you're missing out. And it's done in 7 questions per game...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2025 04:43 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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Probably a good move in general, but now look at your life--spending Christmas even sh*t-posting on the moron site with all of us losers
Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (/xmMU)
Posted by: Jackson at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (J9q9v)
I remember being so jealous of kids that had those!
I liked games in phases. Hungry Hungry Hippo was always fun tho.
Posted by: Catherine at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (ZSsrh)
Kenner Girder and Panel Hydro-Dynamic Building Set
I'd kill someone to have one again.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 24, 2025 04:41 PM (/xmMU)
LOL. My cousins and I played a game of Axis and Allies that started in early afternoon and went to 6 am the next morning.
Posted by: Mark1971
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Respect
Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (/xmMU)
It was based on commodities trading and the goal was to corner the market.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (NuV6c)
That one was raucous!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 24, 2025 04:45 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 24, 2025 04:45 PM (GSe6k)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (0aYVJ)
Probable Hasboro could have gotten more sales if they had the "Bankruptcy expansion pack"
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 04:45 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Catherine at December 24, 2025 04:40 PM (ZSsrh)
I think it was the Aunt that was drunk.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:46 PM (QGaXH)
Hell, Now the toothpaste is locked up so people will not steal them...
Posted by: Jackson at December 24, 2025 04:46 PM (J9q9v)
I'd kill someone to have one again.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (cYBz/)
Chy-nah scarfed them all up to build the Three Gorges Dam.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:46 PM (npFr7)
Smartest move of the game. Kindling.
What a total scam of a game. Worst. "Game." Ever.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 24, 2025 04:46 PM (gLikB)
I'd kill someone to have one again.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (cYBz/)\
How did you contain the plasma?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 04:46 PM (rbvCR)
“One of the great mysteries to me … we've had reporting for some time. Donald Trump is not on Epstein's list. There's nothing in there that's really damning about Donald Trump”
___________
What's the mystery? Trump can find his own quiff just fine. He didn't need Epstein.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 04:47 PM (tgvbd)
--------
Nanci Griffith, 'Love at the Five and Dime'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GK462XnRjQ
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:47 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 04:48 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 04:48 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 04:48 PM (L/fGl)
Well, maybe NERF football.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 24, 2025 04:49 PM (gLikB)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Who Can Eat the Monopoly Money Fastest? Great game.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 04:49 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 04:48 PM (L/fGl)
How do you appear after the bar?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:50 PM (npFr7)
I think I last pulled it out 15 years ago and played it with my kids, when they were actually still kids.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 24, 2025 04:50 PM (5yDGQ)
I had a nice one. I don”t recall following the instructions. Just mixing stuff at random over the burner and noting which had the most interesting (i.e. explosive) results.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 04:50 PM (EXyHK)
Hey, I don't even need to de-sock from two threads ago for this one.
Posted by: Squidward at December 24, 2025 04:50 PM (3nLb4)
You do still enjoy a nice glass of Pomeroy's Plonk or Chateau Thames Embankment though, right?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:50 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:51 PM (NuV6c)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 04:51 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: 496 at December 24, 2025 04:51 PM (kTtsV)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 04:51 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Old Fart Who Knows The Mystery at December 24, 2025 04:51 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (yreN9)
I'd kill someone to have one again.
Posted by: Tonypete
How did you contain the plasma?
Posted by: Kindltot
It's easy once you map out the laminar flows, boundary layers, and skin friction drag.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (cYBz/)
We also played Mastermind and Uno a lot.
Also Trivial Pursuit was popular when I was a teen.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (6ydKt)
Kenner Girder and Panel Hydro-Dynamic Building Set
I'd kill someone to have one again.
Posted by: Tonypete
I had one of those. Spent many an hour pumping and dumping water.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Cicero
Of course.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (L/fGl)
There are some rather strong suggestions that Donald Trump is a heterosexual male. Make of that what you will.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: L - No nic
Fun for a time but by college, they moved into a whole different realm.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 04:53 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
Just seeing them runs my blood cold.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 04:53 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 04:54 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 04:54 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:55 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: RPL at December 24, 2025 04:55 PM (6lCOl)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 24, 2025 04:56 PM (31p00)
Posted by: Tonypete
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Ah. Fluid dynamics have entered the chat.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:56 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 04:56 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 04:56 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 04:56 PM (6ydKt)
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=R-5L8mZtyMI&list=
PLJkeDBmFGaFCtwYv4dJRDYUBfXHWrXIWq
Might be the best Christmas LP I own.
Posted by: RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO at December 24, 2025 04:58 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
I would be kicking everyone's butt and then would hit the popular culture questions and stalled.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 04:58 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: tubal at December 24, 2025 04:59 PM (M6VqZ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:55 PM (npFr7)
The Pentecostal version of the game had the snakes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:59 PM (COQGW)
I also had a merlin, like most cool hip kids who were down with it.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 04:59 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:55 PM (npFr7)
The Milton-Bradley version since 1943 was always Chutes and Ladders, but it’s basically the same game I think.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:00 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Tonypete
Aha! So I've heard. 🤨
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 05:00 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 05:00 PM (npFr7)
I mostly preferred to read. Then came video games, like SNES games and that was it for human interaction.
Oh yeah, we did still play dice games. Not craps. More like Yatzeee and some offshoots like Zilch. Literal hours of each day of everyone sitting around a kitchen table, eating snacks and rolling dice.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 24, 2025 05:00 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 05:01 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: tubal at December 24, 2025 05:01 PM (M6VqZ)
No, really.
Ah youth. . .
Posted by: Zombie Gunnery Sergeant Hartman
I recall a few raised eyebrows when I went to the checkout line with a Twister game, a large jar of Crisco Oil and thirty feet of rope.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 05:01 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Beverly at December 24, 2025 05:01 PM (6NOyf)
Posted by: Hugh Jass at December 24, 2025 05:02 PM (UslNH)
Might be the best Christmas LP I own.
Posted by: RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO
Your link is farked.
https://is.gd/4QMuSi
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:02 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 05:02 PM (Cjt/F)
Thanks for fixing it for me...never tried linking an Album in Playlist Format.
Apparently, I fucked that up.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (FRS+s)
The new Mr. Coffee machine just arrived. (An emergency Christmas present to myself.)
The world is a better place already.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: tubal at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (M6VqZ)
Posted by: Hugh Jass at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (UslNH)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (3uBP9)
Who wants to see Our Favorite First Lady?
President answers calls from NORAD.
With Melania looking wonderful & majectic in the background:
https://is.gd/eDNe9D
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (yreN9)
I believe TODAY is the Holiest of Holy days. Tomorrow is after-the-fact.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (yreN9)
Easter.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (E0p3T)
Ever step on jacks?
Posted by: tubal at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (M6VqZ)
__________
Then: Legos
Now: Dog kibble
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 05:06 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Jill at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: tubal at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (M6VqZ)
Yes, still better than clear plastic Christmas bulb caltrops.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (FRS+s)
My friend's parents, until the days they died, kept a puzzle on the dining room table, except at holidays. It was always a many hundred-piece puzzle and it would just sit there and those passing by might put a piece or two in. Completing it might take weeks. I have no idea what they did with all those puzzles.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (gKDq2)
Yes, I used to be a 14 year-old boy. Some would argue I still am.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: 496 at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (khVJI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (npFr7)
You see that?
The Pentagon's NORAD took calls from children, and the President talks to the kids.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (yreN9)
I found it utterly impossible, and constantly got shocked, every five seconds.
I later read that the game was basically training to be a dentist, because dentists often have to look at your teeth (and do procedures) reflected in one of the long "dental mirror" rods.
If you do good at Tantalizer, it sends a message to the American Association of Dental Surgeons, and within minutes men in black suits and dark glasses show up at your door and abduct you for training and a lifetime career as an indentured dentist, whether you like it or not.
Posted by: zombie at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 05:01 PM (mlg/3)
I generally don't like the remakes but I did enjoy the remake of The Bishop's Wife almost as much as the original. Of course they had to do a race swap but you can't have everything.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (QGaXH)
We had the Atari 2600 and I mostly played Pac-Man, Pitfall, and Frogger.
Then with Nintendo it was Super Mario, Top Gun, and Legend of Zelda.
Played a lot of other games, too, but those were my favs.
I had a Sega Game Gear and Genesis was last, played John Madden Football to death, before moving on to PCs.
Haven’t owned a console since the late 90s.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:08 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (yreN9)
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Easter.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (tOcjL)
I agree. Being born is pretty easy. Rising from the dead? Not so much.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:08 PM (gKDq2)
Just love the looks they give each other toward the beginning. Genuinely happy.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 05:09 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 05:09 PM (pkeXY)
How are you Wenda. I hope you are hanging in. Merry Christmas!
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 05:09 PM (E0p3T)
Then we went over to playing Twister and shoving and punching each other.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (NFX2v)
Contra was my jam when I went to a friends house. We didn't have a Nintendo.
Posted by: Jill at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (grNgC)
I got put outside and told to find a stick to play with.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: zombie at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (oraVG)
Aha! We now see revealed the roots of your obsession with conspiracies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (CNl8/)
I believe TODAY is the Holiest of Holy days. Tomorrow is after-the-fact.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (yreN9)
Easter.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (tOcjL)
No love for National Donut Day?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 05:11 PM (pkeXY)
Loved that game.
It was also good to get on Mom’s nerves with by intentionally hitting the edges to get it to buzz.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:12 PM (6ydKt)
I never had that one but I had the skyscraper one and the bridge one. It taught me that my path in life was engineering. (Math later convinced me otherwise.)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 05:12 PM (1wjle)
Who wants to see Our Favorite First Lady?
President answers calls from NORAD.
With Melania looking wonderful & majectic in the background:
https://is.gd/eDNe9D
Posted by: Soothsayer
She's lovely, always.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 05:12 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025 05:12 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 05:13 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:13 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
Did anyone direct you to where they were selling courgettes?
Posted by: GKWVE at December 24, 2025 05:13 PM (vi3Cj)
Posted by: Granpa Ace at December 24, 2025 05:13 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 24, 2025 05:14 PM (FLiOE)
Posted by: Jill at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (grNgC)
Had a friend who owned Contra.
Borrowed that one several times to play it.
Probably the first great military game, at least in my mind it is.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:14 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 05:15 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (CNl8/)
Waders of the Lost Narc. Tragic story of a DEA group fishing vacation to the headwaters of the Missouri River, gone terribly wrong.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 05:15 PM (npFr7)
sometime in the early 2000s I discovered 3D jigsaw puzzles.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 05:15 PM (1wjle)
Not a board game, more of a body puncture game - has anyone mentioned Jarts?
My high point with Jarts was when we were visiting an uncle I didn't really like, and it was only my parents and me. (brother and sister got dropped off somewhere, they were lucky) So the adults all talked in the living room, and I got sent out in the yard to play by myself. I found a set of Jarts, and decided to see how high I could throw them. Yeah, the fun is in dodging them. (that's what 12 year old boys do)
But he had trees in his yard, and one got stuck in a branch about 25 feet up. So I said to myself "uh oh I'm gonna be in trouble, better knock it down." Well you know what happened. After Jart #2 joined #1, it wasn't long before #3 and #4 were up there as well.
Luckily about then parents called "time to go!" and I just said goodbye to Uncle I didn't really like anyway and never said anything to anybody. Heh I do wonder about the next time anybody went out to look for those things.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 05:15 PM (uWKK8)
Yes, I used to be a 14 year-old boy. Some would argue I still am.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (MZ+PY)
I liked the S & T games, with the hexagon map grids. Stalingrad, Frigate (War in the Age of Sail), Gettysburg, etc.. Spent hours playing those.
There was this two-book game called, I believe, 'Ace of Aces'; a WWI dogfight game. It was a small flip book and each player had one, calling out pages (for manouvers) until either both planes flew away from each other or one of you got shot up. That was fun. Lots of imagination in picturing the dogfight in your head. Easy to carry around, too.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:16 PM (gKDq2)
it was pretty good! I really liked the pieces and the nineteenth century theming.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 05:16 PM (1wjle)
But few people around wanted to play it so I rarely got to.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:16 PM (6ydKt)
Unfortunately, I had to have a friend over if I wanted to play Stratego. My sister would never play that one.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 05:17 PM (grNgC)
My granddaughter Maria died two weeks before Christmas last year, so this first anniversary has been tough. But I've sort of had my Christmas reading about all of yours.
And tomorrow night my son arrives with his kids and some of their friends, so for the next month (!!) I will have a houseful.
And since my son is the bossiest man you will ever meet, I'm not even bothering to plan. He'll do it all!
Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 05:17 PM (FRS+s)
Gettysburg!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 04:48 PM (tgvbd)
My dad had an awesome Gettysburg game, with the hexaganol movement spaces. He loved wargames - he would always play as Lee, and let my brother and I have the Federal Army. He always kicked our asses.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 05:17 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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I don't know who gave us a Ouija board-- parents did not approve-- but it was there in our game closet.
I remember getting scolded, when caught playing it with my friend. It's an evil thing, Mom said.
Year or so later, Mom hollered at me for "rescuing it" from the trash can. (I had not.)
Then Mom burned it, like she "should've done when it first arrived."
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I only hear Snakes and Ladders on British tv or in British books.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: GKWVE at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (vi3Cj)
Girder and Panel in general was a great toy. We used to build them for our slot car layouts.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (abIsI)
No Steve Jackson Games Car Wars?
https://carwars.sjgames.com/
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (COQGW)
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Winter means Basement Jarts! 🩸
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 05:19 PM (kpS4V)
'I'll bet your hair smells good little girl....wanna touch the hair on my leg?'
I will always wonder if it wasn't an unwritten rule around the 'in' crowd to keep your young daughters away from him.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 05:20 PM (QGaXH)
Also King Oil, Gambler, and some oldies like Careers, Go To The Head of The Class.
Kinda a golden age before video games killed it and it became niche.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:20 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:20 PM (gKDq2)
Quite a common move in board games.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:20 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 05:20 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 24, 2025 05:20 PM (bQ4nt)
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Loved that!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 05:21 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (1wjle)
In the Canada of my yoot, we had toys, books and games of British origin, and also toys, books and games of U.S. origin. Best of both worlds.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 05:21 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Lizzy
kind of the same. I think I rquit when I started out with a crappy job.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 05:21 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 05:21 PM (Ia/+0)
Who wants to see Our Favorite First Lady?
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Dated a girl who was much like out First Lady.
Courted her, in retrospect spent more money on her than any other girl. She insisted on being good friends.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 05:21 PM (2ef5s)
Changer in 1943 to make it more Kid friendly
Posted by: It's me donna at December 24, 2025 05:22 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at December 24, 2025 05:22 PM (KaHlS)
My mom and I were talking about how much things have changed and how people aren't into getting stuff on Xmas so much, but it's because back in the day you got stuff two days out of the year, and now you can get pretty much anything whenever.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:22 PM (asXVI)
The family is suboptimal. Hunter's kid with the stripper is probably going to turn out best.
Posted by: GKWVE at December 24, 2025 05:23 PM (vi3Cj)
I don't recall playing many home games as a kid. There were a few with the little arrow spinner that you flicked to have it tell you where to start play, but I don't recall actual names. I was more into the plastic assembly kits, Aurora, Revell, AMT, etc.
Oh, and I just got off the phone with my oldest friend. He's doing well in Florida. Like me, he admits he's become something of a hermit now (despite having his wife of many years and his grown sons there with him), and doesn't trust people like we used to. I told him, "A low-trust society? It stinks."
He's a big Trump supporter, and even used the term "The Deep State." Guess he got it from Trump; I don't know if he reads much alternative news on the 'Net.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 05:23 PM (wzUl9)
____________________________
Some marketing genius thought "Lord of the Flies" was a good premise to promote a kid's game. I got a kick out of the winner having a Brooklyn dialect.
Posted by: Orson at December 24, 2025 05:24 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 05:24 PM (tgvbd)
My nurses bought me the Grinch christmas version of Operation, and we will be playing it tonight!
Posted by: Dr. Nick Riviara at December 24, 2025 05:24 PM (D836D)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 05:24 PM (EXyHK)
Got the kids thinking about gambling and poker hands. What's not to like?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:24 PM (abIsI)
I remember having fun at that. And the smell of the plastic-soldier/monster/whatever factory. Smelled so toxic and good.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:25 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 05:25 PM (Ia/+0)
I'm watching Car 54, Where Are You's Christmas episode:
click here & enjoy too
https://is.gd/QBIaIJ
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Spock, son of Sarek at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 05:27 PM (kpS4V)
Sorry!
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 24, 2025 05:27 PM (V362x)
Boggle?
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 05:27 PM (grNgC)
Designer Steve Jackson was trying to come up with a "microgame" that could be sold inexpensively ($3). He wanted to make a science fiction wargame. He had a limited budget for pieces, and had a brilliant idea: what if one player only had one piece, but it's a really strong piece?
One player controls the Ogre, a giant cybernetic tank with lots of guns and missiles. The other player has a force of tanks, combat hovercraft, artillery, and infantry.
When I played it back in the day, whoever had the Ogre would win. As an adult I realize the game is balanced and the Ogre can be beaten.
It's still available and still has hardcore fans.
Posted by: mr_jack at December 24, 2025 05:27 PM (LNPSJ)
Winter means Basement Jarts! 🩸
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 05:19 PM (kpS4V)
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Break barrel BB pistol with a set of darts.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 05:27 PM (2ef5s)
Got the kids thinking about gambling and poker hands. What's not to like?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:24
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When I was a kid it was the height of hilarity to remove the bottom from the dice cup when the other players weren't looking.
Posted by: Bigsmith at December 24, 2025 05:28 PM (1Au9i)
Losing a "Sorry" game to my granddaughter has made my Christmas Eve.
Losing a Cribbage game to my son later will make it a perfect day.
Posted by: Auspex at December 24, 2025 05:28 PM (YAFrp)
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:28 PM (gKDq2)
Trouble?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:28 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:29 PM (abIsI)
I'm watching Car 54, Where Are You's Christmas episode:
click here & enjoy too
https://is.gd/QBIaIJ
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (yreN9)
Sung in increasing frantic voice:
There's a holdup in the Bronx
Brooklyn's broken out in fights
There's a traffic jam in Harlem that's backed up to Jackson Heights
There's a scout troop short a child, Kruschev's due at Idylwild
CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 05:29 PM (QGaXH)
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"It's A Wonderful Knife" (2023) is absolute trash and woke and obvious.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:29 PM (asXVI)
Hadrian your mothets HS education was probably much better than what the Universities have these days
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 05:25 PM (Ia/+0)
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I have a general-education book she bought in school in the 1940s. You'd be better educated reading that than most college students today.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 05:30 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: mr_jack at December 24, 2025 05:30 PM (LNPSJ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:30 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (abIsI)
Trouble.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:30 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 24, 2025 05:31 PM (DoBxX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 05:31 PM (VMttT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 05:31 PM (VMttT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 05:31 PM (VMttT)
We smeared ours.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:32 PM (dK+Kv)
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I played Mille Bornes as a kid, then I played it with my kids, and with luck, I'll play it with my grandkids.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:32 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025 05:33 PM (lJ0H4)
Follow them and it will work.
Just like Ikea shelving.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 05:33 PM (/lPRQ)
(Maybe I should use my non seasonal nic for this - bob (moron incog.)
I have two WWII peeves and one just got triggered at another site.
1. That damn "survivor bias" meme with the image of the plane with bullet holes. You all must know it.
I refuse to believe that the engineers at the time were too stupid to understand the importance of control lines, fuel tanks, and pilots. I will say no more.
2. (The one that got triggered.) Gerry Can v. US fuel cans -- "look how inferior the allies were."
Why do people insist on comparing a disposable can used to ship boatloads of fuel and distribute all over the continent to a utility can designed to be reused? Do they really think the Americans were so stupid they just had no good ideas at all? It's a wonder we won.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 05:33 PM (fsyiM)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (u73oe)
Maybe see everyone on the ONT?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (abIsI)
Trouble.
Posted by: Catherine at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (ZSsrh)
the name of the game is...
Ball Buster
https://is.gd/PvL7XQ
Posted by: Soothsayer
LOL
No mention of wearing eye protection.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (abIsI)
I remembered you had had something happen but I wasn't sure if it was around Christmas or not. Happy to hear there is some good around.
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (E0p3T)
Growing up in Brooklyn, it was kick the can, stickball, box baseball, Ringo-Lee-vee-O , pitching pennies, and so on and so on.
A vanished world I'm afraid. Long ago and oh so far away...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 05:35 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 24, 2025 05:35 PM (leOJv)
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I played Mille Bornes as a kid, then I played it with my kids, and with luck, I'll play it with my grandkids.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:32 PM (asXVI)
We played it as teens. "Coup Fourré!", of course, became "Boof! You're gay!"
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (kpS4V)
As far as I could tell it was an excuse for old ladies to get together, drink wine, and eat Brie.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (6ydKt)
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I played Mille Bornes as a kid, then I played it with my kids, and with luck, I'll play it with my grandkids.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books)
They call a flat tire a Puncture.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (FRS+s)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (asXVI)
I guess kids were easier to please back in the day.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (HbU2V)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 24, 2025 05:31 PM (DoBxX)
We had those, yes, but we also played cards.
One game we played was just with just paper and pencils.
Each drew a six by six grid. Starting with one person, they'd name a category, American Rivers for example. Everybody put that as a header. And so on until five across the top are named. Then the next person chooses a letter. Each person puts that letter on the left. Then, using a sand timer from some other game, you'd have to fill in the grid. Duplicates cancelling out, the one with the most points wins. Kind of like Trivial Pursuit, before there was Trvial Pursuit.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:37 PM (gKDq2)
Much later, this concept was re-invented for much more recent "collectible card games," but no one had ever thought of it before Careers.
Anyway, afer multiple plays, I realized that the winning strategy was to alwasy choose "50 Happiness Points, 0 Money Points and 0 Fame Points as your victory condtion (i.e. go all in on "Happiness"), then SKIP COLLEGE, and then just take the little loop in the board after the college zone, and just go around and around -- the loop allowed yoi to consistently get a few happiness, but almost no Money r Fame points, so everyone just skipped it. But round and round I went, and very quickly I hot 60 Happiness and the game was over, with me winning.
Hacked.
Posted by: zombie at December 24, 2025 05:37 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 05:31
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Along the lines of Red Rover, British Bulldog and Smear the Queer.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 24, 2025 05:37 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 05:35 PM (x0n13)
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That's so Baby Sharks and Jets!
*snaps fingers*
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 05:38 PM (kpS4V)
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The foreign aspects of the game add to it, I think.
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We played it as teens. "Coup Fourré!", of course, became "Boof! You're gay!"
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Heh. Natch.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:38 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Admirale's Mate at December 24, 2025 05:39 PM (/enuJ)
You had to allocate 60 points amongst various catepgirois to accumulate, in order to win.
Posted by: zombie at December 24, 2025 05:39 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 05:39 PM (3uBP9)
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Ha, I'll have to try that, Zombie. I have four copies of "Careers", through an odd set of circumstances, and they're different versions (because they kept updating it).
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:40 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 05:39 PM (3uBP9)
We did that, too. Bloody knuckles, etc.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:40 PM (dK+Kv)
Do they really think the Americans were so stupid they just had no good ideas at all?
___________
Yes. It's important always to disparage and minimize any American idea or operation.
- Strategic bombing did nothing.
- The Sherman tank was inferior to the Tiger
- We won only because we threw more metal
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 05:42 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 05:43 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 05:44 PM (VMttT)
Posted by: Fuzzy Lumpkins at December 24, 2025 05:44 PM (slsCi)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 05:45 PM (wzUl9)
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The foreign aspects of the game add to it, I think.
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We played it as teens. "Coup Fourré!", of course, became "Boof! You're gay!"
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Heh. Natch.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025
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"The thicket wins"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 05:47 PM (wzUl9)
- Strategic bombing did nothing.
- The Sherman tank was inferior to the Tiger
- We won only because we threw more metal
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 05:42 PM (tgvbd)
I knew a russian guy that said there had to of been some grand secret conspiracy between the axis and the US because it was impossible that the US could have had as many victories and the war ended so soon. And boy did he have all sorts of statistics and anecdotes to prove his point. Crazy, but funny to listen to.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 05:47 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 05:48 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Hadrian
These are all good examples. I defended the Sherman for years, but now, with the internet, I see people starting to understand that the US needs were very different and so what we designed was very different.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 05:49 PM (fsyiM)
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 06:00 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Hadrian
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The Chrysler engine could be easily maintained
The transmission on a Sherman could be replaced in a day. A Panzer transmission had to be sent back to Ukraine to be overhauled by Porche.
We didn't have the capability to ship a tank as big as a Panzer.
We could field 6 Sherman's to 1 Panzer, over run it, and go ahead to provide artillery for the infantry.
_recalled VDH monologue
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 06:11 PM (2ef5s)
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Posted by: Hal Dall at December 24, 2025 07:56 PM (SBJWI)
I used to play a game with my dad where you traded and auctioned classic cars. EG Stanly Steamer or Stutz Bearcat. Can't remember the name but he always kicked my ass
I recently had a chance to paly a game from the 80s that I somehow missed called Thunder Road. It was a delight.
never heard of Colditz but I'm intrigued.
Posted by: WaitingForMartel at December 24, 2025 09:29 PM (2Q1nt)
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I'm not going to do a tinyurl to provide a link so I'll just break it up in hopes that people realize what I have done and can figure it out. Annoying, but not my circus.
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AnkaPundit: Paul Anka Takes Over the Site for a Weekend (Continues through to Monday's postings)
George Bush Slices Don Rumsfeld Like an F*ckin' Hammer
Democratic Forays into Erotica
New Shows On Gore's DNC/MTV Network
Nicknames for Potatoes, By People Who Really Hate Potatoes
Star Wars Euphemisms for Self-Abuse
Signs You're at an Iraqi "Wedding Party"
Signs Your Clown Has Gone Bad
Signs That You, Geroge Michael, Should Probably Just Give It Up
Signs of Hip-Hop Influence on John Kerry
NYT Headlines Spinning Bush's Jobs Boom
Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?"
Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' Mind
All-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd
Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran
Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore
Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery
Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile
Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance
Collective Names for Groups of People
John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets
Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle
Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy
Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)